At the Wrong Office,
A woman who has been a victim of indigestion, and is kept strictly to dyspeptics' diet, was recently invited to a dinner, which she was anxious to attend. She went to her telephone, and trusting 1,01 ,0 a somewhat untrustworthy memory, she asked to be connected with telephone 2394-. When tb« connection h#d hegn, m&dg. she began het
plaintive query without any prefatory, "Is that you, doctor?"' "I want very much to go to a little dinner to-morrow night," she began rapidly, "and do you think it would hurt me if I ate just a tasle of soup, and perhaps a little fish, or the least trifle of game, and a bit of salad or ice? I really think my stomach " Here she was interrupted by^a voice from the other end of the wire. "Madam," it yaid, "eat whatever you please. This is the Universal Food Supply Company !"
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Otago Witness, Issue 2394, 18 January 1900, Page 70
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152At the Wrong Office, Otago Witness, Issue 2394, 18 January 1900, Page 70
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