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Evening Star, Issue 20655, 1 December 1930, Page 6

The young wife went home to her mother and sohbingly declared that she couldn’t ever-bo happy with-’lier husband again. “I wouldn’t have minded it so much, mother,” she wailed, “if John had answered me back when I scolded him, but ho did something worse.” “My dear child,” exclaimed her mother, “surely he didn’t .strike you?” “No, worse than that, mother,” and the young wife sobbed harder than ever; “he—just yawned.” A ymmg Englishman was paying his first visit to New York, and a fellowpassenger on the boat warned him about some of tho whisky sold in “speak-easies.” Some of it, he said, contained a percentage of wood alcohol, which was .more or less poisonous. “ But how am I going to toll the good from the bad before 1 drink it?” asked tho youngster. “Oh, that’s quite easy," said the other. “Just dip your finger into it. If your nail stays on you can drink it.”