Types of Our Ancestors.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXV, Issue XX, 17 November 1900, Page 934

Types of Our Ancestors.

Hasn't the <1 ragon bit oil a little morethan he ean ehew?—Minneapolis Journal.

Elderly Spinster (horrified) : “Little boy. aren't you ashamed to go in bathing in such a public place with such a bathing-suit as that, on ?” Small Hoy : " Yes'in ; but me mother makes me wear it. I’ll take it oft' though, if you'll promise not to say nothing to her about it.

Husband.— '* So you insist upon going to the seacoast for eight weeks?” Wife.—“We owe that to our position in society!” Husband.—“ But remember, dear, how much we owe already!”

Ethelwynde: “They say she married a common mechanic.” Heliotropye : "Common, Ethelwynde! Why, he had spent all his life in a bicycle manufactory.’' Ethelwynde : “ Ah, heavens ! Although a man-hater for years, I feel that 1 could love such a man as that with my innermost soul.”