A travelling man was eating .in a stuffy little restaurant one very hot summer day. There were no screens at the windows or the door. The proprietress herself waited on her customers and shooed (lies from tne table at the same time. ITer energetic hut vain efforts attracted the attention and roused the sympathy of the travelling man, who said: ''Would it not be better to have your windows and the door screened?" "Well yes, I s'pose that would help some," replied the woman, after thinking a moment, "hut 'twould look mighty lazy like."
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Taranaki Daily News, 4 December 1915, Page 9 (Supplement)
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