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Show The Marital Grasshopper. What is a grasshopper? The latest definition comes from western Australia. Aus-tralia. Domestic servants are almost unprocurable tjiere, and wives have to do nearly all their own household work. The consequence is that they are compelled to recuperate at the seaside sea-side in summer. In their absence the husbands have to prepare their own meals and do domestic duty generally. Husbands so engaged have come to be loyally known as "grasshoppers." No doubt the word is the husband of the more familiar "grass widow." London Lon-don Chronicle. |