Wellington Times in Wellington, New South Wales

Scraps of Fun in a Bustling Drawing Room

A comic scene unfolds as a rejected suitor pleads with Edwin who is engaged to another. In a shop a hurried wife seeks a birthday gift, while a bumbling assistant suggests a book titled How to Manage Talking Machine. A family drama features a boy borrowing an encyclopedia, and a cautionary tale warns about marrying for money. A museum visit yields riddled humor with Dead Wokes jokes. A smooth canvasser courts a single man, then discovers the neighbor’s claim of marriage confuses the scene.