When visiting valets are staving Jn house they -will sometimes help the hath, to wait at dinner if there is a large party! On one occasion a valet was helping tfruaj and the master of the house noticed hi servant’s thumb-nail was black and dirty. The next time the valet handed him something he slipped a niece of paper int< the servant’s hand. On the paper written: “Go and clean your nails.” The valet wrote underneath: "Please, sir, where I hit it with a hammer,” and slipped it into hi? master’s hand when passing hitn the next dish. “Quack” doctors to the number of neatly 93,000 are believed to be practising in the United States; they obtain their diplomas bv purchase from institutions with high-M sounding but meaningless
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19107, 28 February 1924, Page 11
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128Page 11 Advertisements Column 6 Otago Daily Times, Issue 19107, 28 February 1924, Page 11
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