SAD'CONSOLATION.
- "Once,"-! ,sanl a politician, ."when 1 was 1 ' younger, Iwcnt up to Liverpool to make a political speech. :• My, : wife; was/with :mo. Wo arrived :-oii. a chill, .rainy, .miserable', Octobcr afternoon.., It was.cheerless at:thb hotel, - .cheerless in the. city, .and cheerless every- . where. She had a cold; I had a cold. ■ The .outlook; for; tho .meeting was riot- good. Wo went but for a - walk despite, .the rain., - We walked through tho. park,- ,my wifo : reading me a lecture 011 tJio, futility of politics.' Just ; as, sho;reached her,;peroration /wo, saw/ an /.automatic niacliine that played"lhiisicj weighed . you, and dropped out a card' tolling your. fortune. /. I stepped , oil .tho machine, put a /.penny ih thojslot, heard-,the' : music tinkle, ahd /.waited , for, tho:'machirib to tell'my fortune. , Tho card came oiit,' and I handed it to her/. It said: 'Do not bo discouraged.. sccond marriage will be happiir than your.first.'"
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 522, 1 June 1909, Page 3
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149SAD'CONSOLATION. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 522, 1 June 1909, Page 3
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