That popular movie afar. .\liss Mabel Normand, tells an amusing sfnry Cor:Cei‘ning a friend of hers whose passion for keeping everything spick and span in and about her house beat :11! bounds. An old friend of thc famiiy had come to spend the evening. After dinner the hostess. her husband and their guest Went out Cu to the lawn. The men lit their cigars, and the guest threw the burnt end of his match on to the ground. “on I wouldn't do that. George." said the hostess. “ W'hy not?" "It spoils the appearance of everything,” was the answerr “ It's just those little things that make a place look so untidy.“ The guest smoked his cigar in silence tc near the end; than. without a word, he got. up. Walked down the road, and disappeared. He returned in a. short time. His hos‘ asked: “ Where’ve you been, George?" " Oh. I just went to throw the stub of m): - cigar. info.— thadver,’j» saileegx-ge. .
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17159, 1 October 1923, Page 6
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