COSTLY MERCHANDISE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 48, 28 November 1891, Page 636

COSTLY MERCHANDISE.

Mrs De Lace : ‘ This paper says that every pound o ivory in market represents a human life.’ Mr De L. : * That’s almost as bad as the whalebone industry. ’ Mrs De L. : ‘ls whale fishing so very dangerons ’’ Mr De L. : ‘ No, that is safe enough ; but think of the women the whalebones kill.’ A lady of fashion of advanced age required the services of a page boy, and advertised, ‘ Youth wanted.’ One of her dearest friends sent her by the next post a bottle of Blank’s celebrated wrinkle filler and skin tightener, a pot of fairy bloom, a set of false teeth, a flaxen wig, and a cake of iodine soap.