A “ funny man ” thought he would break up a suffrage meeting; so, from tha audience, he called out io the woman speaker: “ Say, madam, would you lika to bo a man?” Back instantly came tha reply: “ Yes, I would. Wouldn’t you? ’* Papa; “Why, hang it, girl, that fellow; only earns nine dollars a week ! ” Pleading Daughter: " Y’es; but daddy, dear, a week passes so quickly when you’re fond of one another.” Zoo Visitor: “ Is that a male or a female: hippopotamus?” Zoo Keeper: “Really I consider that the business only of another hippopotamus.”
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Evening Star, Issue 24138, 7 March 1942, Page 6
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