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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 8 January 1914, Page 3

She: *'How can he ever hope to win a woman s love, when he wears such whiskers?" He: "He grew them as a. forlorn hope, after .seeing the way she fondled her Skye terrier." "Thexe are some parts of your speech thit I find hard to understand." "Point 'em oOt," replied the great statesman, "inrl I'll rewrite the other portions. 1 intended the SJitire speech .to be that way." \ Portsmouth astrologer lias fined £l6 lor professing to .J* read the future .of persons bv st W>n, the position of the stars at the their birth- Had he been studyme l»s own particular star he might avoided the trouble. A Chicago firm, in the course of a business communication to a >«e»on firm, says :—"You may be n't crested to know that the great State oi Illinois has &iven women the right to vote, and 1 first effect of it has been the closing o. between three and four hundred saloons in many towns in the central part of the State, in which -elections were recently held Crooked politician* who formerly ■hadn't much to fear in the way of opposition are now really at ino possibilities of woman's vote."