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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2928, 25 July 1911, Page 7

"Someone has discovered that if the hand of a sleeping person is placed in salt water that person will revet I the secrets of his past life," said the I hostess, and the visitor immediately i began a hurried search for his hat. j "Where are you going ?" she ask- ; ed in alarm. | "Going home to hide the salt-cel-jlar," replied the visitor, who knew | something. I "So Erma is engaged," said i Eleonor, with a curl of her lip. ' "Well, I'm sorry for the man, that's all. She doesn't know the first 'thing about keeping house." I "Oh, yes she does, though," was ■ Fannie's assuring reply. I " Well, I'd like to know what it jis," was the doubting response. ! "The very, first thing, is to get a man to keep house for." On one occasion an Irish jury who, in spite of the fact that a case of mistaken identity had been proved, insisted on a verdict of " Guilty of arson," because, as one of them said — 1 "Shure, your Honour, it's very like to be the man that stole my grey marc last Christmas." "My dear," said a wife who had been married three years, as she beamed across the table on her lord and master, "tell me what first attracted you to me. What pleasant characteristic did I possess which placed me above other women in your sight ?" And her lord and master simply said—"l give it up." Johnny—My dad's a policeman. What does your father do ?. Jimmy—What ma tells him !