The young bride was bending over a dry-looking volume reading very earnestly. "What are you reading?' asked a friend. "It's rather a good book," said the young bride. " It's called ' Advice to the Married.' " '"What advice doss it give to wives?" "I don't know," answered the bride; " I'm reading the advice to husbands." "Mr Chairman!" said the orator, who had already occupied the platform for 20 minutes, amkl many interjections from the audience. "Mr Chairman! May I appeal on a point of order? There is really so much desultory conversation going on in parts of the hall that it is impossible for me to hear a word lam saying." Voice from the back of the hall: "Don't be downhearted; you're not naiaains much, cooky/'
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Evening Star, Issue 17038, 8 May 1919, Page 4
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Evening Star, Issue 17038, 8 May 1919, Page 4
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