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Evening Star, Issue 20053, 19 December 1928, Page 3

Tlig Victorian grandparent gJIEcd disapprovingly on his young granddaughter. “ Art, my dear,” ho said pointing nn accusing finger afc her lipstick—“art cannot improve on nature.” “ Oh_, rot, old bean,” she cried cficcnry. “Think how perfectly comic you’d look without your false teeth!” They were discussing .a wedding pr«* ■sent, a silver butter dish, that they were sending off that morning. “ What shall wo ;>ut on the card?” asked tho wife, “Oh.” said tho husband, “just tho usual elope, I suppose; anything you like.” A few moments’ thought followed, and, then she handed him tho card. It was inscribed; 11 For butter—or wojse.” He; “You are always boasting that you were n model for a famous artist—for what picture?” She: “For ‘ Cleopatra and tho Snake.’ ”• “ ,WJ»* was Cleopatra ?”■