THE LYING HUSBAND.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17572, 24 June 1925, Page 3

THE LYING HUSBAND.

AMUSING l-’KNIM I,TON STORY. I All men. they, say, are liars. An amusing story from Feudal ton wav stamps ono man, a married one. as k liar. This gentleman's wife is in the habit oi carrying the family purse and, moreover, keeping tight grip on it, too. He wanted badly io go to the races, but know it was hopeless to secure tho consent of his better halt". Then suddenly came ono of those flashes of inspiration, which they say arc the experience only of genius. Ho had read that Joe Bierman. the tailor, made ten-guinea suits for five guineas, | that ho gave a guarantee that his fiveguinea suits were just the same, except in price, as the ten-guinea suits of other tailors. Now our l’endalton friend was requiring his annual suit, which he usually paid ten guineas for. He went, therefore, to .Joe Bierman’.-} at No. 8, "Cathedral Square, between Bank of N.Z. and Dalgety's. and had made to his measure for five guineas a. suit which simply delighted his wife when she saw ii.' For in a ter ia I, tit. style. Avorkmanship and finish it wu.s unsurpassed. Was il any Avondcr. thereldre. that she easily believed our friend's tolo that the clothes cost ten guineas, and the result was for him u. nice little day at the races. 17-10