KIBBLINGS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8643, 2 December 1889, Page 4

KIBBLINGS.

—♦ A little nonsense now and than. Is; relished by the wisest men. Love is said to be the motive power of the world, and yet fifty-eix women out of every ninety-two will stick to it that a well-seaeoned broom handle is more reliable than moral snnson for immediate result. She . " Perhaps you are not aware, Colonel Snarlington, that I had half a dozen offers before yours." He : " And perhaps you are not aware, Mrs. Snarlington, that I proposed to a dozen different women before I met you." A man nerer begins to find out how little he knows about domestic mntten until his wife asks him to keep his eye upon the baby and see that a pan of melted butter is kept stirred while she goes into the attio to look through her rag bag. 1 You may say what you like, mother ; George no longer lo> es me." " Bot, child, how did yoa get that silly notion into your head ?" " Ob, very simply, aud only too quickly. When he takes me home nowadays, he always chooses the ehortest road." Two ladies had hud a little tiff, and one of them remarked as she departed, ''Well, as I told my husband this morning, 1 shouldn't care to be in your shoes." "I imagino not," the other responded ; "you would find them painfully close-fitting."