HOSPITAL SATURDAY IN SYDNEY

Waikato Times, Volume XLII, Issue 3433, 30 June 1894, Page 12

HOSPITAL SATURDAY IN SYDNEY

Some of the lessons of Hospital Saturday in Sydney;— Ladies are mostly bad marks/ ' Women ' who don't come under the heading <'ladies, ' are a lot better. Old women are better than young ones. Old gentlemen don't pan out very much, and old gentlemen with spectacles, in particular, seldom part'out for anything at all. Old gentleman with spectacles, in jact,. are a bad lot. Dudes are eminently unprofitable, and generally assume in aspect of horrified suprise when the box is put before them, and dudes in cabs are generally more hopeless andmore astonished looking even than dudes on foot. Dudes in carriages generally look as if they would like to give 'he collecting lady into custody.. Working men are the most regular and most consistent subscribers. Chinamen also pan out well, especially gam-bling-house keepers. So do publicans' wives,' bookmakers, sporting 'i men, and spielers. Clergymen contribute nothing but a benevolent smile; likewise aboriginals. In, fa'ct the parson and 1 the aboriginal' are about the only classes who are absolutely and utterly unapproachable. Also, ..as. a general rule serious-looking...gentlemen, • with umbrellas, pay. up. very reluctantly, and look with a stern expression at the collector, as if they suspected her of getting, money under false pretences. In tliis respect the man.with an umbrella is a lot worse than the man with a walking sfc 1 " <\ and,it is further noteworthy that the man who. 'carries his umbrella tightly rolled, isn't near so promising as the one who has his gamp flying loose.—Sydney Bulletin,'