A FINANCIAL EMBARRASSMENT.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXI, Issue XVII, 22 October 1898, Page 521

A FINANCIAL EMBARRASSMENT.

A lady who had a kndly remembrance for all her domestic servants, met an erstwhile washerwoman and stopped to ask her how she fared. ‘Oh. mem, it’s turrible tinanshul distil ress me an' the chikier's in.' ‘Why, what is the matter —are you out of employment?' ‘No, mem; work's in a fair state o' stiddiness, nd not a ci nt do I owe. but it's lashin’s o 'throuble I've got’’ ‘Are you not paid promptly?' ‘As prompt as the day rooms round.' ‘What is your financial dsitress. then ?' ‘Well, mem' (in a burst of horror), ‘what's killin' me is. I earn six dol lars tin' week an 'pay eight for me board, an' only (lord knows how I do it!' A LESSON IN PATIENCE. When the eminent botanist. Professor Aitman, of Glasgow, was a small boy, he had the present of a silver bit, whereupon his mother was so worried with questions as to what he should do with it she exclaimed: ‘Really, you bad better go to Thomas Elliot’s (a well-known pharmacist), and buy sixpence worth of patience.' Down the street marched the lad and demanded of the chemist, ‘Mr Elliot. pleast* give me sixpence worth of patience.' Mr Elliot, taking in tin* situation at a glance, said, ‘Certainly, my boy, there's a chnir. Just sit down and wait till you get it.' Professor Ait man's endeavour to purchase patience was a great success. It has never been forgotten by either himself or his friends.