"Why do you pour your tea out over your specs? 5' With the newspaper propped up in front of him, he w*« allowing the morning's news to rob his breakfast of its accustomed interest. He reached for the teapot and then looked vaguely round for the milk. His little daughter turned her empty eggshell upside down in her egg-cup and taking advantage of her father's relaxed attention, spoke. "Why do you pour your tea out over your specs, Daddy? You read the paper through them." *'Eh? What's that, Betty?" He stopped with the teapot in mid-air and blinked at her over the rim of his glasses. **Why aren't you looking at me through your specs?" she enquired in that disconcertingly direct manner of children. Daddy considered. "Because I can see you better over the top than through them, I s'pose, dear." He smiled. "Then what do you ivcar them for?" she insisted, her brow wrinkled into a puzzled'frown, her head in her hands, and her elbows—against all orders— planted firmly on the table. "Er—l can't exactly explain, dear. It's a ..." He studied the problem with growing irritation and . was silent. Daddy was stumped. It slowly dawned on him why he couldn't explain. He really'didn't know why himself! ; ' : ■■'■■•■ . Let Littlejohns j take care of your eyes W. LITTLEJOHN & SON, LIMITED - 222 LAMBTON QUAY (Opp. Kirks.). \k Shampooing \x Setting and \ Permanent nSBHuL lßs Ye* ess. ••fcly entrust all four \Bm^ to the highly-trained expert* vdw^K- " £ in our up-to-date ••Inn, feel- xSKJv." fiL. mx confident that yon will be \w^i /rtc* fully eatUfied when the work \J^\ £O^^ B %. 3M Lambtan Qu.-iy 1 M . Phone 41.227 3 - 2 Courtenay Place, 9 >^^^Phon^B-813^ I Cost of Living Must Come Down...So WEET-BIX IS ■■' ■ REDUCED IN PRICE! To-day you profit doubly by buying Weet-Bix—coupons bring you valuable free gifts, and you save on the new reduced price. special The New. One-Day Service , ■tszr- Fitwell Teeth for £?/10/-if ■ (UPPER or LOWER) My Double Impression SIMPSON Dentist, 25 COURTENAY PLACE NEXT DOOR PARAMOUNT THEATRE OPEN EVENINGS 'PHONE 20-783
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 33, 9 February 1931, Page 13
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