An elderly Jewish plutocrat went to (.he rejuvenating wizard and asked: “ Gan you make mo twenty-five again?” “Yes,” was the reply, “but it will cost you a thousand guineas.” “Can you make mo eighteen?” “ Yes, “for five thousand pounds.” “ I’ll have the operation for eighteen.” Six months later the wizard called for his money. “Nothing doing,” said the patient; “I’m under age, and if you say I’m not I’ll sue you for fraud.” A bomb exploded during a chess tournament in South America the other day. An absorbed player remarked rather irritably that if members of tho audience wanted to sneeze they might at least go outside.
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Evening Star, Issue 19942, 11 August 1928, Page 18
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