FATHER’S CHRISTMAS PRESENT.

Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1924, Page 10 (Supplement)

FATHER’S CHRISTMAS PRESENT.

Mrs. Briggs was in high feather, for Mr. Briggs had just presented her with the usual Christmas cheque, and as it was a nice big one there was much rejoicing.

“That is jolly!” said Mary, Mrs. Briggs’s eldest daughter; “just think of the Christmas presents we can buy.” “And how do you propose to spend the money?” asked her mother.

“I want to buy you a set of sables, and we can get a new sixteen-guinea bicycle for Tommy. Then I can have that lovely set of furs I saw the other day, and we can book six stalls for the pantomime. Molly must have that new muff, and the cook that gold-mounted umbrella we saw last week, and—er—er, let me see. I know there’s something else. Oh, yes, of course; we’ve forgotten papa’s Christmas card!”

AGAINST ALL THE REGULATIONS. A somewhat impatient and truculent individual went into the British Museum one day and ordered a book. The attendant was so long in getting it that the man at last became furiously *engry, and, going to the nearest attendant, shouted threateningly: “Look here, if I don’t get that book in one minute, 11l raise the devil!” The attendant, though very much frightened, tried to remonstrate with him. “Oh, but you can’t do that here sir,” he expostulated. “It’s against all the regulations I”