BEAUTY ABASHED.
A young lady whoso beauty is equal ■ to her bluntness in conversation was visiting a house where other guests : were assembled, among . them the eldest son of a rich manufacturer. The talk turned on matrimonial squabbles.' . . . : Said the eligible "party": "I hold that the correct thing for the husband is to begin as he intends to go on. Say that the question was one of i smoking. Almost immediately 1 1 would show' -my. intentions by lighting a cigar aaid settling the question for ever." "And I would knock the thing out of your mouth !". cried the imperious ! beauty. . . "Do you know; " rejoined the young man, "I don't think you , would be there!" • ' '" :< '
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Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 283, 3 June 1909, Page 5
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115BEAUTY ABASHED. Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 283, 3 June 1909, Page 5
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