evening. Time, after 5 o'clock. Dramatis porsonae, two Government girl clerks. Subject, tho new Government oftico hours. First girl: "How dp you like tho new hours?" Second girl: "I don't like ono little bit." First girl: "Why?" Second girl: "It's not so much getting early in the morning I win leave my bed and the breakfast things to mother, but it's getting home half an hour early. I'm just in time to help get tea, and T fall in for it nicely." First girl: "That' l ; just my trouble. I don't believe in going home to start in cooking and Betting dinner ready—l'm off that, so I've waited back .purposely to-night to dodge it." Second girl: "Same here—you don't catch me going hoino l>efore the usual time." This is how the tramway officials' efforts to equalise the traffic are partially rendered futile. l Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. For Coughs and Colda,' cevor 'ails,*
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 281, 16 August 1918, Page 6
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153Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 281, 16 August 1918, Page 6
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