AWKWARD MISTAKE.
MADE BY A GROCER. The Duchess Sermoneta, a greatniece of the former ex-Empress of France, Eugenie, in a book of reminiscenes that has been published, relates that the well-known composer and suffragist, Dame Ethel Smyth, frequently cycled from her cottage to Eugenie’s house at Famborough, changing into her evening gown behind some bushes in the park. Once when the dinner guests were assembling in the drawing room, the composer advanced towards her hostess, simultaneously running and curtseying, the result being a series of kangaroo hops. Eugenie immediately beckoned to the Duchess Sermoneta and whispered; “Take Miss Smyth outside and arrange her gown a little.” The Duchess obeyed and assisted in a certain amount of hitching up in the adjoining gallery, while Miss Smyth, still breathless and wriggling, panted: .‘My dear. I’ll tell you what is the matter. I’ve bought a new pair of stays from the grocer’s and I believe he sold me a birdcage by mistake.”
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 253, 24 September 1929, Page 12
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159AWKWARD MISTAKE. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 253, 24 September 1929, Page 12
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