HOTT7 MANY APPLES DTD EVE AND ADAM EAT?

Taranaki Daily News, 15 December 1922, Page 6 (Supplement)

HOTT 7 MANY APPLES DTD EVE AND ADAM EAT?

How many apples did Eve and Adam cat ? The old version says: Eve 8 and Adam 2 (Eve ate. and Adam, too); total, 10. This is what certain American newspapers have to say about it:— Nebraska Herald: Eve 8 and Adam 8; total. 16. Mississippi Gazette: We don t see this. Evo 8 and Adam 82; total, 90. New York Screamer: Our contemporary is entirely wrong. Eve 81 and Adam '812; total, 893, Ohio Advertiser: We reason like this: Eve 814 herself, and Adam 8124 Eve; total, 8938. Illinois Telegraph: Eve 8142 know how it tasted, and Adam 28,142 see what it might be like; total, 36,284. Labour Call: Eve 281,424 see what would be the result. TAKING A HINT. The Woman who wrote the “Household Hints” column for the Sunday Woman’s Page stopped to fill her fountain pen. when, one of her paragraphs caugiht her eye. She examined it more closely. “Well,’’ she declared,' “T believe one of them looks really like a good idea. I do believe I’ll try it.” This is the time of the year when a woman doesn’t object if her husband becomes penurious. He may be saving up to buy her a Christmas present. Christmas, of course, has its drawbacks; but, at that, the chronic kicker deserves to find nothing but a corn in his Christmas stocking