Among the applicants for relief at the Sydney Town Hall depot (says a Sydney paper) was a woman from one of the poorer parts of the city, whose story sounded genuinely pathetic, bub who made her appearance in a fur coat, which one of the experts present judged to be worth 15ga at least. The committee looked sideways at that coat, and when she had concluded her tale of suffering turned to the subject at once. “ How does it come that you apply for relief wearing an expensive fur like that?” asked the chairman. “Oh, it isn’t mine,” explained the woman. “ There are five of us in it. It’s only my day for wearing it.” In KOLA-NIP you get a stimulant for the tired, a refreshment for the hot, a quencher for the thirsty. A tabiespoonfui in aerated water makes a cooling, nonalcoholic drink. Hotels and stores. CAdvt.l i
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Evening Star, Issue 16626, 8 January 1918, Page 3
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149Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Issue 16626, 8 January 1918, Page 3
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