QUAINT BIRTH NOTICES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLII, Issue 11449, 31 January 1918, Page 6

QUAINT BIRTH NOTICES.

NOVEL INTIMATIONS OF NEW ARRIVALS. Styles are changing oven in birth announcements. A few months ago a French poilu announced in the Paris newspapers the arrival of a sou ami heir in the following manner: “Since 12 o’clock list Friday lam hero. Pierre Blouquet, of Infantry, is my father, and Mario, his wife, is my mother. My name is Francois. ”

Distinctly original was the announcement sent out by a certain Welsh musician when his wife presented him with a baby-girl. Tnis —the announcement, not the babygirl—took the form of four bars of music inscribed on a letter-card. The,proud parents’ musical friends recognized these as from the “Messiah,” and being interpreted meant, “Unto us a child is born.”

5 Some years ago a facetious Scotsman named Cash amused his friends by an. intimation through the nevvsp tpers that his bettor-half had presented him with “a little Cash. ” He went on to say that as a result ho would have still less cash in the future, and that the more Cash he, had to keep the less cash he vvould have to spend. Sentiment was mixed with the an-; uouncemeut in the ‘Times’ a few years ago to the effect that the wife of a South London resident had on Friday, February 14th, given birtli to a valentine daughter. Of course, a facetious gossip-writer immediately took advantage of the_ proud parent’s originality and pertinently inquired whether a boy born on Shrove Tuesday would bo a pancake sou, or twins, who saw the light first on Christmas Day a couple of plum puddings! Combining a birth announcement with an advertisement strikes one as the last word in enterprise, and Mr Fox, a poultry dealer, who inserted the following notice in the daily papers, should be congratulated for the novel way in which he commended his wares: ‘‘Another little Fox found its way into my establishment between ten and eleven last night, but notwithstanding its arrival there will ho no diminution in the number or quality of the geese for which my establishment lias long been famous. Remember that the old Fox is always cunning m securing for business the plumpest goose.”