Not Suited for the Posts.
A professor of phrenology was lecturing on the future, when a nurnu with two young children stopped to lister.. The professor, on seeing them, said : "Fur instance, look at those two beautiful children. What will they become? Perhaps, after a successful career at college, they wili enter Parliament, and b;Come a member of the Cabinet. Or they may go in for law, and become eminent barristers. (1)-. ladies and gentlemen, we may be gazing on the greatest genera] and braves' admiral of the future that ever lived." "Oh sir T'exclaimed the nurse. "I'm afraid neither of them will ever be fit to hold any of these positions.'' "Good gracious! Yon don't, mean to say they are both imbeciles?" "No," said the nurse, "(hoy are both gilrs."
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King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 118, 24 December 1908, Page 3
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131Not Suited for the Posts. King Country Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 118, 24 December 1908, Page 3
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