MIRTH MISPLACED. ' [A moralist objects to middle-aged giggling and cackling at wedding feasts.] 0 the blathersome folk Who consider the yoke Such an excellent joke As constrains them to cackles; Could they only foresee What the issue would he, How the weird they would dree Of hymeneal shackles! Could they augur the doom Of the bride and her groom In. the boarding-house boom With the landlady’s niggles; Of the extras..that will Find a place on the bill— Do they think they would still Vaunt their middle-aged giggles? —A.W., ‘Daily Chronicle.'’
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Evening Star, Issue 17542, 23 December 1920, Page 10
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90Page 10 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Issue 17542, 23 December 1920, Page 10
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