Wearied Telephone Subscriber: “Cancel the call and cut me off for ever. I’ve .waited an hour, and the matter is urgent.” Exchange:. “That’s all right. What we lose on our telephone we make up on our telegrams.” “There’s one thing,’’ he said" jeeringly, “men never get together and talk about one another the way tho women do/’ “No,’’ she answered; “I don’t think they do. There is nothing interesting to say about them.”, “Why have you nevery married, Miss Antique?” lie thoughtlessly inquired. “You, never asked me before,” she said coyly, as she. give liim her hand. Visitor: “We’re getting up a raffle for a poor, old man. Won’t you buy a ticket, my dear?” Sweetthing: “Mercy, no! What would Ido with him if I won him?” ■
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3524, 15 May 1912, Page 8
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127Untitled Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3524, 15 May 1912, Page 8
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