AFRAID OF WIRES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 27, 5 July 1890, Page 19

AFRAID OF WIRES.

Electricity has become not only a wonderful but a fearful agent, and the imaginative tremble before it. ‘ It is perfectly terrible,’ said a lady, ‘to read of the accidents that occur from misplaced wires ! Nothing would tempt me to have anything to do with electric cars, bells, telephones, or any other such alarming invention if I could possibly escape them.’ ‘ Well, you can t,' said her husband carelessly, ‘ unless you flee to the wilderness. ’ ‘ That’s the worst of it,’ said the lady, in mock despair. ‘ Why, you may touch an iron post, or step on an innocentlooking iron grating, and fall down dead I It’s all those terrible wires ! I declare, I’ve grown so fidgety over them that I can't look at a wire strainer in the kitchen without shuddering !’