THE NEWTON NEWSMONGER

Observer, Volume 8, Issue 435, 23 April 1887, Page 18

THE NEWTON NEWSMONGER

Some of our fair Newton shopkeepers show extreme artlessness in trying to make their ■windows attractive, and their zeal in this direction is likely to do more harm than good. I shall proceed to illustrate what I mean, in the hope that an improvement may result. In ICarangahape-road a small tobacconist shop is under the management of a young woman of modest manner and irreproachable character. The shop is well kept, and the stock is nicely shown off; but one thing mars the adornment of the window, and this is the display of certain questionable pictures which are supplied to tobacconists as a means of advertising a particular kind of cigarette. Pictures of this kind displayed outside are suggestive of badness inside,' and where customers are attended to by one of the gentler sex, such an attraction is neither becoming nor in good taste. It is not many months since these very pictures were introduced into Auckland, and they were then held by the few who possessed them as things not to be seen by mortal eyes. They are now exexhibited as legitimate attractions, and, as I have said, are likely to do more harm than good. In the shop alluded to, I wish it to be understood that I am not saying anything in disparagement of the young woman who attends to it ; but they look bad in any window, and I hope to be able to say next week that they have been removed... Mr E. G., the leather pvinee and sworn bachelor, has evidently altered his mind about the pleasures of single blessedness, for, with that sweet-lookins angel on Saturday night, he looked as if he was prepared to tie the Gordian knot on the spot. ...Miss G., late of the Asylum, is certainly hard to please in her choice of fruit. Her beaii had to sample plums in almost every shop in Newton on Easter Monday night ; indeed she kept him sampling 1 until all in her domicile had retired for the night, an l she had to get out into the middle of the road to see whether it was easier for her to gee through the top window or for her beau to take down the shutters... Miss X., of West-street, seems lonely since H. went away. But she always does seem lonely... Who was the damsel that showed her stockings to the young men? Fie !... Mr M. should declare in favour of either one or the other of the Miss M.'s ; to make love to two of them is Mormonietic.S. seems greatly in love with that dressmaker off Grey-street : but look out for J., he will be as good as a pole-axe... What takes Miss G. to that butcher's shop so often? Is it to see the assistant?... Why does Miss E. visit that bootmaker so frequently ? Does B. know anything about it?...G. M. and J. B. are about to be made one flesh. ..Bad form of J. M. to get positively tight when going to an evening party. ..What made Miss K. so jealous at the. late party? Was it the fact of Miss ,T. B. being belle? Better luck next time... Why did Miss S. stop so long in the lolly shop ? Was it to get rid of T.?...T00 bad of H. to keep Miss K. waiting so long while he was doing a spoon with Miss T...Mr H. has taken the fatal leap. Sigh •no more, Miss M... Miss M. looked very nice at the party, but pined and whined because Mr C. was not there. ..Mr H. and Miss C. are shortly to be .married. ..Miss W., you certainly displayed "bad breeding in promising bo accompany Mr C. to the ball on Easter Monday, and then disappointing him. He says if he lives for nothing else, he'll live to disappoint y0u...8. has gone away, and another one S. E.) is left sad and lonely... A novel and appropriate entertainment will be given by the Queen's Minstrels in the Foresters' Hall on Queen's Birthday night. Every item on the programme will be of fifty years' standing, in commemoration of the Jubilee year... What a young 'masher' G. G. looked promenading Karangahape-road with Miss L. C. on Saturday night last. G. looked very bashful. ...A. It. and J. B. are about to tie the fatal knot. I congratulate you', old boy, and think it about time... E. and J. G. are at war with each other about that pretty waitress... What attracts Miss 8., of West-street, to the Salvation Army so often? IsitG.? .