Accounted for "Youna lady, did you take a swim this morning?"
"No. Why, is there one missing?"
Presence of Mind Substitute Tue pastor's wife had just died, and in_consequence he wished to be relieved of his duties for the week-end, so he sent the following message to his superior "I regret to inform you that my wife has just died, and I should be obliged if you could send me a substitute for the week-end."
Tit for Tat Or Sophie Arnould, whose tragedy was that her voice gave way when she was still young, the Abbé Galiani once wrote that she had "the finest asthma he had ever heard."
Sophie was witty and found her revenge.
Having heard that a Capuchin had been eaten by wolves, she remarked to Galiani: "Poor beasts! What a terrible thing hunger must be Pertinent Points for Ladies Do you sit toe-in?
Do you wear high heels for sports?
Do you have crooked stocking seams?
Do you have holes in the heels of your stockings?
Do your stockings wrinkle and droop around the ankles?
Do you sit, flapperwise with your skirts above your knees?
Are you continually hauling up your stockings in public?
Are you lazy about picking up your feet when you walk?
Do your stockings have shoe polish on them as well as your shoes?
Do you wear low-heeled shoes to parties—as if you were on a hike?
Do you wear opentoe shoes when your stockings have "open toes" as well?
Have you the simian trick of wrapping your feet around the legs of the chair?
Do you slap your feet down when you walk, like a duck smacking through mud?
Do you slip off your shoes under the dinner table, then get caught when your hostess rises?
When you bend over do you exhibit a bare space between the tops of your stockings and your skirt?
Do you sit with your feet propped up on a chair—or any other piece of furniture you find convenient? eet From Here and There ugoraTRA may not have been religious, but she had a divine form.
You can always bet that the sword swallower will play his role to the hilt.
When a girl wants a man of letters she means the kind she can take into court.
He: Ah, my love, Fd give my life to marry you.
She: Go way. You haven't any life to give.
"Why do you love girls who stutter?" asked the blonde. To which the guy replied. "Because it takes them so long to say s-s-s-stop."
"Baby, I could go on admiring you like this night."
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