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[Illustration: SOCIAL DIFFICULTIES IN EARLY TIMES.
_British Matron (whose husband has just had his weekly coat of woad,
to visitor)._
"I'M SORRY, SIR, BUT MY HUSBAND CAN'T SEE YOU TILL HE'S DRY."]
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"Gas Stoker wanted for 11 million works, used to gas
engine and exhauster; 50_s_. per week of seven 12-hour
shifts."--_Advt. in Daily Paper_.
In the circumstances the reference to "exhauster" seems superfluous.
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NEW AIDS TO THE ANGRY.
The readers of the Personal Column of _The Times_ were lately
refreshed by the following entry:--
"Would the person in the green Tyrolese hat note that though
it may be a custom on his own course to pocket golf-balls on
the fairway, it is not done elsewhere."
For long the Personal Column has been a vehicle for appeal and regret,
for affection and grief, in addition to its other manifold uses; but
as an instrument of admonishment it is fresh. The tragic thing is that
up to the time of going to press the green Tyrolese hat has made no
reply. Either it does not read _The Times_ or it has been rendered
speechless. We were longing for some first-class recriminations.
The new fashion is sure to spread.
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