AN EMBARRASSING MISTAKE

Western Star, 16 June 1933, Page 3

AN EMBARRASSING MISTAKE

TRAVELLER AND HIS CLOTHES. Delegates to the recent Commercial Travellers' Conference at Exeter (England) lived up to their reputation as tellers of, entertaining stories —and the funniest of all was a true .one. It concerned a delegate who, how it is not explained, . arrived with the wrong suit-case at the ..Imperial Hotel, where many other delegates also stayed. Unaware of the change, he went up to his room lto dress for dinner. To his horror and amazement he fund not a single masculine garment, but instead a large number of flimsy things, principally of silk and lace. A closer- examination of the suit-case revealed that,' though very much like his own, it was not quite the same. Other delegates, however, fitted him up with what they could spare for the conference functions

To his great relief a note arrived at the hotel the next day from a younn woman saying she would be very much obliged if h e would return her suitease, which "he had taken by mistake in the train."

The New Zealand Lesion l invites everybody to join an d help it to formulate a policy.—But the depression will be Wr by then,

The trbubl© about debts is that the more they are contracted the more they expand. ' An American writer declarea thai America takes a- great interest in Britain—And from Britain as well. "Men speak more in their sleep than women," says a doctor. —But «• good deal less when both are awako. During his twenty-one days' fast .Gandhi, lived on mineral water, 6ays an item in the cable news. Lemon aid, perhaps. 'And how do you find Emily's temper?' his mother-in-law asked Tom one day, 'When s.he was home 6iu had a nasty habit of slamming tin doors when annoyed.' 'I soon cured her of that.' he told her. 'I just pui her treasured, ornaments over the doorways.'