It is a well-known fact that umbrellas are frequently missing after religious I gatherings. This misfortune has so often befallen a certain prelate that ho has given vent to his feelings in the following rhyme ; “The rain it falleth every.day Upon the just and unjust fellah, But more upon the just, because The unjust steals the just’s ■umbrella-, 1 * Daly : “ Y our wife doesn’t seem to have such bad health as she used to? ’’ Bailey i '• “No; I’ve cured her.” Daly: “You! How could you cure her?” Bailey: “Well, you, see, I told her I would'give her so much money a month for her dresses and her doctor. Since then she’s | been quite wek' ’
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Evening Star, Issue 16628, 10 January 1918, Page 1
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114Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 Evening Star, Issue 16628, 10 January 1918, Page 1
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