FLUNKEYOMANIA.
It may not be generally known that there is any .difference between the social positions of the batcher, the baker, and the draper, bnt it appears that there 00 is. • An iptepeStfrfg ty&f&g* >latiy) $hile walking with an equally interesting and fascinating genfcleniftfi (who b/. the way she had a/tea Been before) tald her companion, who" TVad offered to take her to a ball, that she should not go, " because butchers and bakers' were to bo allowed to be present." She told him that she would not mind attending the ball if only tbe -drapers wore to be present, feiit sbe.~drevv the lina at butchers and bakers. She apparently considered the dmj3ei^ ; Qecu{]sed a much highersocial ranK-tJbtaß Qtjjferjiradesmen. But she w r as a|sp a lady who stood 'on Vi^iqttfciW.".. I' When her companion asked hereto take his arm, she replied, " Oh, I never takpyonng gentlemen's arms, but sometimes jfQung gentlemen take mine."
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 2882, 29 July 1878, Page 3
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154FLUNKEYOMANIA. Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 2882, 29 July 1878, Page 3
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