IT’S AN ILL WIND—!

Taranaki Daily News, 17 December 1926, Page 11 (Supplement)

IT’S AN ILL WIND—!

Py<-hcrby is a hard'hearted man. The Spirit of Christmas never touches him,, and he always chooses Christmas Eve to give his superfluous employees notice. llis wife, however, is different, and she entered the dining room with a troubled look. ’’Oil. Gerald.” she said. “Maud has just swallowed a shilling! Whatever shall we do?” Maud, be it said, occupies the position of maid-of-all work to the Pycherby household. “Do?*’ repeated the master of the house. “Well, I suppose we'd better let her keep it. She’d have expected a Christmas box, anyhow.’'*’ ♦ • • # On thmtmas Day we pity .the vogpfariaii. On Boxing Day hy us.

I And the nice bow-wow, friend of !youth ..nd weakness, who is all lick iand docility in the pantomime is profitably all growl and irritability in his 'own home. * * * * I I’ve done my best to warn you'Now go ahead with your eating and (drinking, and you’ll be happy lying in bed afterwards to think that you did your worst. i * * * # * j The Christmas dinner is like courtship. Marriage is like the morning , after. • « • « The Christmas goose is the human being who eats too much of —the j Christmas goose. Eat, a pound of plum-pudding and :lhen—you’ll pay for it,