"We hear a lot of joking about the snortage of marriageable men on account' of the war," Senator Smith, of Georgia, is credited with saying, "and I guess it must be true, judging from a proposal I just heard of from my State. Here was how the girl worked it on her bashful suitor: 'There goes our minister,' she said; 'he's very poor. I ■wish I could hand him a five.' 'Let me do it,' exclaimed the youth, unsuspectingly, in a fervour of benevolence. 'Oh, Archie, fchU &co sudden,' bubbled the sweat youa? tiling, and what chance did he give?- ~"
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 156, 30 December 1918, Page 7
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