AT THE RECEPTION.
This new one is told of a man who lives in Auckland. At a reception at one of the fashionable houses in Remuera, a gentleman asked him who the lady was standing near the mantel. He answered : * Why, don’t you know ? That is Mrs Conduit-Smith.’ The gentleman made a few well chosen remarks and then said : ‘ I must say I admire Mrs Smith very much.’ ‘ Gracious,’ said his friend, • you must not say Mrs Smith ; it is Mrs Conduit-Smith. Why, she even has it on her visiting cards, with a syphon between.’
He : * I’m a great believer in Stokes’ system of committing things to memory. For instance, the mental picture of a policeman in flames would suggest the name of Bobbie Burns.’ She : * Or Robert Browning ? ’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XII, Issue VII, 17 February 1894, Page 168
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129AT THE RECEPTION. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XII, Issue VII, 17 February 1894, Page 168
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