The Archive · 1939

Determined

Motuer: "No Tommy, for the third time I tell you that you cannot have any more dessert."

Tommy: "All right, but I don't see where dad gets the idea that you're always changing your mind."

Court Stories Poutce courts provide a fund of stories now: adays, of which the following are a few. Said one man: "I lie my wife to keep the house clean but you can have too much of a good thing. If she was in the trenches shed want to polish the barbed wire."

Said another: "That day I came home for the first time in my battle uniform. But a suit of armour would be no protection against my wife, She started at me again."

Then a woman said "My husband never tells me anything. He might be in the Ministry of Information for all I can get out of him,"

Gas Prevention AND now for a ballad, different from the songs that Gracie Fields sings, but one which should amuse and instruct the thousands who are taking A.R.P. courses in Poison gas: 1t you get a choking f PUN Lis ig feeling and a smell of You can bet your bottom dollar that thered Phosgene on the way, But the smell of bleaching powder will invite ably mean That the enemy you're mee a Chlorine y ting is a gas we When your eyes begin a-twitching and for tearg you cannot see, Its not mother peeling onions, but a dose of

CAP.

If the smell resembles pear drops, then you'd better not delay; It's not father sucking toffee, it's that ruddy

KSK.

If you catch a pungent odour as you're going homo to ten safely put your shirt on it they're using

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