MISCELLANEOUS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1142, 21 February 1884, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Good Advice.—The efficacy of either of the following methods of replying to gentlemen when they ' pop the question' is recommended by a lady friend of ours who has been through the mill : 1. Especially recommended to blondes Pause, sigh_ very distinctly, then open your eyes with a good deal of wonder (of course you have been trying to make it out and oan't) look your lover in the face, and say : ' What can you mean Alfred V If the last words are spoken in a slightly agonised tone, why, so much the better. _ 2. Very suitable for brunnettes Give a start, a glance at the questioner, turn asidd, and be unable to speak for your emotion. One hand pressed on your bosom will express this effectually, 3. Safe in the hands of anybody, and generally considered a c'incher—Burst into tears, covering your face with your hands. If you can, droop your head on his shoulder, and murmur, < Ob, William!' 4. For gazelle eyed girls it is enough to say, 'Xo !' pout, shake their shoulders, and look pretty. Alcoholic Fatuity.—The chronic debauchee feels that he positively cnnnot exist without his alcoholic stimulation. To quit drinking or to continue the habit brings death all the same. Such a man can find in Hop Bitters, properly used;, a perfect panacea for the drunkard's cure. Read Advt, ' Yes,' said the druggist, ' I'm sorry 1 gave Mr Snaggs the wrong dose by mistake and he died. He's the second good customer I've robbed myself of in that way this year.

Sir Thomas Moore ren.arU in . jh pn-ifnT (o the Utopin, that he completed the work by stealing time from his sleep and meals. He m?de it his invariable practice <o rise at four o'clock. 1 Buchtj-Paiba.' Quick, complete cure, all annoying Kidney, Bladder and Urinary Diseases. Druggists. New Zealand Drue- Co., General Agents 2 ' The difference,' mused Twistem, ' between a necessary adjunct of the kitchen and a fat party going up a ladder is simply this : One's a muffin pan, the other's a puffin'man.' That Husband op Mine is three times the man he was before he began using ' Wells' Health Rene we r.' Druggists. N.Z, Drug Co., General Agents 2 This is what a wretched newspaper man says of the ladies : One of the mysteries of human nature is that a woman can wind her hair up like a rope and stuff it in her mouth with a lot of bair pins, and still be able to distinctly utter more words in two minutes than a man can say in a week, or a short-hand reporter can writs down in three days.