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Evening Star, Issue 14054, 8 May 1909, Page 2

SAEETY IN NDMBSES. A certain young clergyman, who was blessed with good looks and a fair income, found himself so pestered by the designing mammas and maidens of his parish that he took the earliest opportunity-of arranging an exchange of livings. Some time later he met his successor, an old college chum, who was still a bachelor, and who possessed worldly advantages very similar to his own. “Well,” he asked, “how do you get on with the ladies? Do they worry you much?” “No,” replied the other; “they run around a little, ix is true, but I take no notice. Besides, there is always safety in numbers.” “Htn!” said the first, “I am glad you find it-so. I bad to-sieek it in exodus.” A smalt boy, writing a composition on Quakers, wound up by saying that the “ Quakers never quarrel, never get into a fight, never claw each other, and never iavr back,” He added: “Pa is a Quaker, but‘l really don’t think ma can be.”