"GEMS" FROM A POET.
Two stage flappers were bragging about their admirers and their attentions therefrom. Said the first young woman : I- once had ». lovely brooch sot with Ke ( ?n~l w,, B tnein,-and all real ones." _ -Pooh, That's nothing i" retorted juveinlo number two. "I had more than a hundred gems given me once. All from ono 'boy,' too." ••nu'v?**? °E' t hl?r cllorus of '""credulous Ohs! from half a dozen other girls which greeted this amazing .tatement, the speaker held her | ground, protesting that what she had told them wan a. fact I'inally, it occurred to someone lo aak <V.i7 6i?, oE gems tnsy ■iroi'oWell to toll the truth," came the reluctant admission, "thoy were 'gems' from a beastly poet." s
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 143, 20 June 1925, Page 17
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