A perplexed and wearied wife said to her husband one evening, after having pub their eight-year-old hopeful to bed: "My dear, you will have to help mo with that boy. His inquiring mind "knows no bounds. Suppose you take your turn in answering some of his questions." "Most assuredly," briskly answered the husband. "That's easy enough, my dear. Just what questions is he asking?" "Well," replied the weary wife,_ with a twinkle in her eye, "he asked, for instance, 'Why don't women wear suspenders?' 'Plow far can a cat spit?' and 'What does God eat?' " Ladies know them to have no equal— Martin's Apiol and Steel Pills. Sold by all Chemists and Stores throughout Australasia. —(Advt.)
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Otago Witness, Issue 3339, 13 March 1918, Page 49
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116Page 49 Advertisements Column 1 Otago Witness, Issue 3339, 13 March 1918, Page 49
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