SOCIAL SHAMS.
, ' Dickens says, " Half the world does not know how the other, half .lives." It is just as well. TJie other day an Australian journal impressively recorded a fashionable marriage, and i*t>f erred, in adulatory terms .to the numerous . and costly presents given to the happy couple. There ended the romance, and the prosaic began. Hardly had the nuptial day waxed and waned, when the trouble began. ' It got wind . that the very presents' were .covered with a bill o J: sale, the holder being one of the distinguished donors in the brilliant affair ! We have some social shams in Auckland, but, tlymk Heaven, none of its citizens have ever been guilty of such cozenage as this, or endeavoured to trick the public out of a belief, in the poetic injunction, that Things axe not what they seem. It is by looking farther afield that we learn this new wrinkle of how to utilise marriage presents, and an illustration of the old couplet — 1 He gives a party, which lie ouglit to do, But doing thac, he does His tradesmen too.
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Observer, Volume 5, Issue 112, 4 November 1882, Page 115
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182SOCIAL SHAMS. Observer, Volume 5, Issue 112, 4 November 1882, Page 115
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