A doctor, an engineer and a financier wore debating which of them belonged to the most honourable and ancient profession. The doctor said: “Mine, easily. Don’t you remember that in the beginning Eve was made out of a rib in Adam’s side? There’s a surgical operation, for you.” The engineer said: “Yes, but before that happened don’t you know that the whole world was made out of chaos in six days? There’s an engineering feat for you." “Ah,” said the financier, “but who made chaos?"
N EXT SATURDAY ends your opportunity of buying Carpets and Rugs at tremendous reductions. —S. Burnett White.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 18 February 1937, Page 8
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