A Final Effort.
1 Mbs Antique: "Why. how do you do. Mr Globetrot? I'm delighted to see you Lack. Of course j'ou remember me?" Returned Traveller (wrestling with his memory) : "Of courfo, of course. Delighted to bes you looking so well. And how aie the dear chik'ren?" j Miy* Antique: "Children?" ! Returned Traveller: "I mean to ask how i> ynur family —meaning, of course, your hwband?" Mi- Antique: "Husband? I never had a hn-band. sur!" ' Returned Tra\eller: "Er—of course not; i judt a little pleasantry of mine, you know; I meant, of course, your brother, whom you , love as much as anyone could love a bus ' , Miss Antique: "I never had a brother." ' Returned Traveller : "Uin —sr —of course not; juit joking, you know. How is yoiu— your —sr • Did you ever have a mother?"
— According to an eminent scientist, the | alkali in asparagus de\elops form in the human brain. j — When one thinks of the wives and the j children left with very meagre pensions, one feels that Lord Kitchener was right in in- | sisting that the Egyptian army should accept only the services of bachelor officer*. It i seems harsh to condemn officers to celibacy, j but a fighting army, as distinct from a gar- j rison army, should hs.\e a& few home ties j as possible. A married man fights just as ' pluokily as a single one, but if he is killed j theio are so jnany heart-strings that are ' vi rung. —Sketch. j
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Otago Witness, Issue 2399, 22 February 1900, Page 67
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247A Final Effort. Otago Witness, Issue 2399, 22 February 1900, Page 67
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