GENERAL.
Tho expression about minding jnie’s P's and Q’s originated at the tjaio wnen men who frequented inns and ale-houses had not always the wherewithal to pay for their drinks. The easy-going landlord would chalk up pints and quarts, unpaid for, behind the door, and, ono supposes, ran over the list now and again with regard to arrears, and so the expression about minding one’s P’s and Q’s camo into uso. Tho experience of many doctors is that most of their middle-aged women patients of tho middle classes suffer from being too closely glued to tho home. “Women who stay at homo too much, without sufficient relaxation, amemic, dyspeptic, or neurotic—sometimes all three.”
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Evening Star, Issue 18093, 7 October 1922, Page 9
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113GENERAL. Evening Star, Issue 18093, 7 October 1922, Page 9
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