SIMPLE EXPEDIENT.
Among the more recent stories of feminine liankingis one of a young lady who in a fit of alistraetion signed a cheque, ‘Your loving Susie.’ A still later anecdote is this, from one of our exchanges : A fund was lieing raised for the benefit of sufferers by a great disaster, and a certain rich but illiterate woman was approached upon the subject. *Oh, I shouldn’t mind lending the money,’ she said, ■ but I do hate to have my’ name in all the papers.’ ‘ But that could be easily- arranged,’ said the gentleman who had opened the subject. * "Why, yes, of course,’ remarked the woman, ‘ 1 could send a anonymous cheque Why didn’t I think of that liefore ?’
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue XIV, 2 April 1898, Page 431
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119SIMPLE EXPEDIENT. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XX, Issue XIV, 2 April 1898, Page 431
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