An Aurivorous Lady.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVII, Issue 25, 22 December 1906, Page 48

An Aurivorous Lady.

Midas found a diet of gold unsatisfactory when there was no variation from it ; but in Paris there is at least one lady who has discovered that a little of it is well enough. Possibly she is not the only one w ho has done so, since the man who was victimised by a fair gold-swal-lower in a Montmartre restaurant seems, according to the “Daily Telegraph’s" correspondent, to have met her like before. If so. it is rather surprising that when she, sitting at a table near him, asked him to allow her to bite "for luck" tha twenty-franc piece with which he was about to pay his bill, he consented. She swallowed it. with a realistic scream and apology for the “accident” to follow. But the resources of civilisation were not exhausted. At the police station a dose of ipecacuanha drew- the money- from the bank, with interest in the form of two other twenty-franc pieces, swallowed previously, no doubt. We presume the lady was no worse for the treatment, to which she was doubtless accustomed, since ipecacuanha or something like it must have been her regular cheque-book.