A woman may revel in silts and satins ; she may make her beauty resplendent with diamonds and opals ; she may attire herself in the most delicate of flowers until she looks sweeter than the burst of the dawn on paradise ; but at the same time she will condescend to tie her hair up with the fag end of a pair of superannuated penny shoe strings. A man coming out of a newspaper office with his nose spread all over his face, replied to a policeman who interviewed him, “ I didn’t like an article 'peared in the paper last week, an’ I went in ter sea the man who writ, en’ he war there ! ”
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Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1690, 21 July 1879, Page 4
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