WASTED ECONOMY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 11026, 14 March 1914, Page 3

WASTED ECONOMY.

A tourist was stranded in Norway with only enough money in his pocket to pay his passage back to England, He thought the matter over, and came to the conclusion that he would buy the ticketj and that, as a sea trip only lasted a couple of days, he would go without food that length of time. He realised that if he stayed in Norway till his money was spent he would never be able to get home. So he went on board the steamer and bought his ticket. He closed his ears to the sound of the luncheon bell, and when dinnertime and a fellow-passenger asked him to accompany him to the dining-room, ho politely declined on the ground that he felt somewhat unwell. The next morning he skipped breakfast by getting up late, and at lunchtime he kept to his room. At dinnertime that "evening, however, ho was so hungry that he could have eaten a pgir of shoes. " I am going to eat," he said, " even if I am thrown overboard afterwards. I might as well be drowned as starved to death." At the dinner-table he ate everything in sight. Then he braced himself for the explosion. " Bring me the bill,'* he said to the steward. ' "The bill?" queried the steward. "Yes," said the man. " There isn't any bill," was the reply. "On this 6hip meals are included in the passage money."