The Archive · 1938

IN, PARENTHESIS

Breaking It Gently "I understand that your daughter is going to take music lessons."

"Not exactly," replied Farmer Corntossel "We haven't the heart to tell her that her voice sounds terrible, so we're going to hire a regular teacher to do it." cee On Order Th following notice appears over a shop on one of the prominent roads in the French Concession:—

Carpenter, Mason, Painter, Wooden Head—Hat-Stand make to order if you wish changing fashion or fix size of it when you talk between 2 d; after 2 days if you talk when extra charge.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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