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Evening Star, Issue 17545, 28 December 1920, Page 6

A lady who had lived in a certain country town to an age at which her friends had scarcely assumed that she was likely to forsake her spinstechocd, suddenly surprised them by announcing her engagement to a local bachelor who was considered rather eccentric. A friend of hers took it upon herself to express some little surprise at the engagement, and when the fiancee replied " But what is it in him you don't like?" answered : " Oh, I don't dislike him at all; it's only that everybody thinks him—well, not exactly eccentric, but, at any rate, rather singular in. many of his way's." "That may be," replied the prospective bride; " but, then as he is so very unlike other men, he is surely more likely to make a good husband."—The 'Windsor Magazine.' "Oscar, I am going to do something to please you for your birthday; but I must first ask your teacher how you conduct yourself at school." But, auntie, if you really want to please me, I wish you wouldn't say anything to the teacher at all!" ,