THE LYING HUSBAND.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17569, 20 June 1925, Page 5

THE LYING HUSBAND.

AMUSING FEXDALTOX STORY. All men, they say, arc liars. An amusing story from Fendaltoii way .-.tamps one man, a married one, as a liar. This gentleman's wife is in the habit of carrying the family purse and, moreover, keeping tight grip on it] 100. He wanted badly to go to the races, but knew it was hopeless to secure the consent of his better half. Then suddenly came one of those flashes of inspiration, which they say are the experience only of genius. lie had read that Joe Bierman, the tailor, made ten-guinea suits for five guineas, that he gave a guarantee that his fiveguinea suits were just (he same, except in price, as the ten-guinea suits of other tailors. Now our Fendnlton friend was requiring his annual suit, which he usually paid ten guineas for. He went, therefore, to Joe Bierman’s at No. 8. Cathedral Square, between .Bank of N.Z. and Dnlgety’s, and had made to his measure for five guineas a suit which simply delighted his wife when she saw it. For material, fit, style, workmanship and finish it was unsurpassed. Was it any wonder, therefore, that she easily believed our friend's talc that the clothes cost ten guineas, and the result was for him a nice little day at the races. 1710