To Get a Night Out.

Otago Witness, Issue 2804, 11 December 1907, Page 91

To Get a Night Out.

Two men were standing together in at corridor of a post offoe, One of them -happened to notice that a poet-card, held in the fingers of the other, was addressed to the holder. "Why, what does this mean?" he asked. "Do you address letters to yourself?" "In this case, yes," wa9 the answer. "That's funny."' ' "Well not so very. See the other side." He held it up, and the other side read: "Bro. Blank.'— There will be a meeting of the 1.Q.0.5.8., No. 387, at the hall, the evening of October Ist, to transact special business. Membew not present will be fined two guineas. — J. B— — , secretary." "Yes, but I don't exactly catch on," protested the innocent. • "Oh, don't you? Well, I «ot the cards printed myself; the society is all a myth. When I want to go out of an evening I direct one of these cards to my house. I reach home, and my wife hands it to me with a sigh. I offer to stay at home and stand the fine of two 'gruineas, but, of course, she won't allow that. That's all, my friend, except that the scheme is worked by hundreds of others, and our poor deluded wives haven't tumbled -to it yet."