A SEX PROBLEM.
“Why,” asked the fat passenger “does the driver always call his engine ‘she’?” There was a moment of era barrasing silence, then the man on the tender said something about her headlight,” which was followed by a hollow groan all along the line. “Because” ventured the tall, thin passenger, “the more you throttle her the faster she goes.” But this was barret out under the rules. The man will the sample case suggested, “Because she runs the mail,” but everybody said “Ah, there!” so sarcastically that he apoligised. The cross passenger said “Because there was so much bustle and bang about lier,” and he was fince cigars for the crowd on the spot. The bashful passenger said maybe it was because she “pulled the smoker,” am he.was hissed off the stage. Then the woman who talks bass closed the discussion by croaking, “Because yot couldn’t get along without her.”
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 616, 15 March 1921, Page 3
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152A SEX PROBLEM. Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 616, 15 March 1921, Page 3
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