WISE AND OTHERWISE
A doctor warns nervous people that sleeping with the electric light on all night is apt to give one a bad headache. Especially when the bill comes in! <
"If a young man sees his girl friend darning a sock," Btates a woman writer, "he is safe in one conclusion." She saw him coming.
"What makes re lly brilliant men so forgetful?" asks a contemporary. We did know, but we've forgotten.
It Is believed that the reason why so many Illiterate people make money backing horses is that they are unable to read the newspaper tipsters.
And, by the way, it has always puzzled us why these tipsters tell other people how to make money, instead of getting it for themselves.
You can only get out of life what you put into it. That's the difference between life and a laundry.
"Why don't chemists sell sunburn lotion in the winter?" asks a correspondent. They probably do —as chilblain ointment.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume LXVIII, Issue 3482, 16 August 1937, Page 7
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