AN EXPENSIVE PARASOL.
{ Nine hundred and twenty pounds is i what a sunshade has cost a French husj band, who, the "Telegraph" says, was •at tho seaside with -his -wife. They I started, out for a walk. "Oh! I loft my J parasol in Paris!" exclaims the wife. The husband is too devoted to her to lot her suffer in this heat. He buys her a ! sunshade at once, the handsomest that 'he can find. It oest just £1. After a I while he reflects that £4 far a sunshade !is a good deal. Perhaps he can make Jup for it at tho Casino. To tho Casino ho goes, and tries to win £4. He was I lucky enough to win £3 at first. But j this did not satisfy him. Hβ wanted to win back tho £4. "instead, ho lost i>loo, i and then £800, and finally the loss totalled up just £920. After this he gave , lip in despair. The parasol had • cost him enough. .. . . _ . "
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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14162, 30 September 1911, Page 9
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167AN EXPENSIVE PARASOL. Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14162, 30 September 1911, Page 9
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