EASY!
Brown: “Alb your fingers bound up What have you been doing?” Smith: “I bought my wife a potato peeler for a Christmas box, and when she said -she couldn’t make it work I had to show her how simple it was!” HER BETTER PLAN It was the dream hour when the Christmas dinner, having been eaten, was doing its best to digest itself, and the girls were conversing in the hushed tones appropriate to the occasion. Whispered Elsie: ‘l’ve just heard of a. new charm, to tell whether anyone loves you, and, if so, who it is.” ‘‘What is it?” §ibyl asked, absently fingering a new diamond ring. “You take .four chestnuts, (named each after some man you know, then pub them on the stove, and the first one to pop is the one that loves you.” “Oh,” said Sibyl, regarding the diamond ring interestingly. “I know a better plan than that.” “Do you ?”
“Yes, indeed. By mv plan you take one particular man, place him on the eofa m the parlcur, turn the light down, sit close to him, and look into his eyes. And then if ho doesn’t ‘pop,’ you’ll know it’s time to change the man on the sofa.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 16 December 1936, Page 9
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203EASY! Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 16 December 1936, Page 9
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