WOMEN, AND CARDS
Binks—- No ' use playing cards with women, ; Women havoa't the first glimof an idea of honour- — no sir, I've 'tried 1 it #fth ' my wife' often* Winksl-Eh? She dossn't cheat,, does she? - I * ; Bink»^ Well, not exactly,' but she might jre well: Von seey.J pot 'up a certain amount of pin money against a oprtnin lot of garments of mide that need mending. II she wins, she's to get the pin money ; and if 1 win, my , clothes are to menled. Winks — Pair enough. Binks — Well, every time she wins j she demands compound interest at ten J per cent a minute, from the time the ■ game commenced, and whan I win she i sends tuy clothes to the tailor's,
Several automobile fire-engines are in use id the Paris Fire Department. Electricity propels the engine and work's the pumps. One charge in the accumulators will keep the pumps in action for five hoars.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11818, 16 November 1901, Page 1 (Supplement)
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156WOMEN, AND CARDS! Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 11818, 16 November 1901, Page 1 (Supplement)
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