NOT PARTIAL TO PLAQUES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume IX, Issue 24, 11 June 1892, Page 606

NOT PARTIAL TO PLAQUES.

A YOUNG HUSBAND WHO OBJECTED TO BIG BUTTONS. ' Charley, dear,’ said a Princes-street wife, greeting her husband affectionately on his retnrn from business the first evening after their honeymoon. * I have spent this entire day sewing buttons on your clothes.’ *I am proud of you, Carrie,’ he said, fondly. * Not many young wives would have spent their first day at home so sensibly. I had not noticed, though,’ he added * that my belongings were so dilapidated.* * But they were,’ she said ; * scarcely a button left. I have sewed on nineteen buttons this afternoon and this is the twentieth,* she added, holding up a garment with a large brass button partly sewed on. * Nineteen did you say?’ he asked, inspecting the sample with alarm. *ls that a button or—or an ornament ?’ he said, gazing at the expanse of brass surmounting his crumpled garment. * It’s a button,’ she said indignantly. * You see, after the fifth button the little white ones gave out, and I couldn’t find anything else to use but hooks and eyes. I knew you would not like those, so I cut the buttons off the front of my last winter’s sacque and used them all. You always admired those, you kn >w, Charley,’ she said, anxiously. * They won't fit any buttonhole I’ve got,* he remarked, gloomily. * I noticed that, dear, so I—l enlarged eleven of the holes.’ * Caroline,’ he said in firm tones, * I courted you in simple pins and knots and strings. They may not be pretty, but we got along together first rate, and I want it understood right here that if you think I am going to hang plaques all over my person, and cavort around brass-mounted, as it were, then you are tied (not buttoned) to the wrong man.*