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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 26, 30 December 1908, Page 13

ISN'T IT? “AU the world's a stage.’’’ “ And yet the roang man doesn't always get the girl he wants; the burglar can’t break gaol: the farm is often sold without a grandstand rescue. How different life is from a utefodramal ’’

My Strange Neighbours THE STORY OF AN OLD HOUSE Frosi ths French of Marie Thiery 4 T LAST I have found the very The talk which I h«>.rd was abotss n/S place which I wanted. I found famous hooks, and everywhere my- eyes I ■ it by chance in the course of met old engravings hung along the wide I JL one of those solitary tripe of halls. Among those surprising land- • which I am so fond. scapes I saw highly artificial figures lam not sad, no bereavement or sor- dressed in odd costumes such as my row of any kind has laid waste my life grandfather remembered having worn, or soured my heart. Ido not hate my My childish brain was completely fellow-creatures, but they bore me. filled with the far-away period of 1830. I have often been reproached for hav- It is still very dear to me; and perhaps ing a soul belonging to another time. it was the romantie appearance of this and this tendency of my mind to revert place, "The Desert,” quite as much as to the past is probably due to cireum- its solitude, which charmed me the stances which had a strong influence other day, and has kept me here. “The upon my childhood. Desert" is situated at the foot of the In the very old house in which I lived Pyrenees, up a valley rich in fresh until I went to college, and to which meadows and fields of waving grain. I came back for my vacations, I was The soil here is fertile and easily ■worksurrounded by old people and old things. ed, but the brown and gray roeks pierce THE BEST NATURAL APERIENT WATER. Hunyadi sanos For CONSTIPATION. Professor D. LAMBL, sf Warsaw, Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University, write!— •• Hunyadi Jinoa Bitter Water, besides being an excellent general aperient, has proved specially efficacious in the treatment of chronic constipation, venous obstruction and congestion, haemorrhoids and obesity." Average Dosb :— A wineglassfut before breakfast, either fure or diluted urith a similar quantity of hot or cold tatir. « 1 TTIBfAW BoU the same Jen.*," the 11/oetere ot the Preartoter. DAI! 1 IUH ULXLAHIItR, sad she Medahiea. at the Red Ctacre Par