THE NEW WOMAN AND THE OLD MAN.

Patea Mail, Volume IX, Issue 120, 16 October 1896, Page 2

THE NEW WOMAN AND THE OLD MAN.

■SAVAGE” and “social” clubs at SXEATFOED, What is sauce for the gander will be sauce for the goose So say certain fair residents of Stratford. Beccntly, so it appears, some of the wilder and more convivial spirits in the place started a Savage Club, the first meeting of which was held at a local hotel the other day. There were songs and recitations, toasts and refreshments, especially refreshments. Savages being generally and peculiarly given to thirst - and every one present had what our American friends call “ a real good time.” But the ladies of the place do not appreciate the “ sweet boon ” of a Savage Club, hubbies who are members thereof betraying a tendency to come home at unearthly hours with palptble evidence about them that they have been sampling the local Gleulivet not wisely but too well, and evincing a strong inclination to get into bed with their boots on. And so, rebelling against the ‘ Savages,” some of the fairer section of the Stratfordians concocted the following sarcastically worded advertisement which iuly appeared in the local paper :—■ NOTICE. The ladies of Stratford propose to open a “ Vicious Club,” which is to be held at Mr Twentyman Wilson’s, and all ladies who wish to join will meet in the Bar oa Monday, oth October. It is proposed to commence at 8 p.m. and finish at 3in the morning. Befresh* meuts provided. Lemonade—and some* thing in it. Lemonade—and “something in it”—is distinctly reminiscent of the Widdy O’BrienO’Breehon plaze” of that very amusing piece “ Fun on the Bristol.” A hen the Widdy is at sea she suffers terribly from mat de mer, and calls frantically for the “ Shteward ” —“ Shteward, for the love of Hivin’, shteward, fitch me some lemonade, and, shteward, just put a shtick in it —a tiligraph pole, shteward darlin’.” If the “ Vicious Club ”of the Taranaki township ever gets beyond a joke, I trust that the “ something” in the “lemonade” will not be over strong. Otherwise Brown coming home from the “Savage Club ” and Mrs Brown from the “Vicious Club” may settle the great club question by fisticuffs and scratch* ing.—“ Scrutator ”in the New Zealand Mail.