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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 8, 21 January 1905, Page 8 (Supplement)

Daughter: Edwin says he wants a wife with good lungs. It shows how considerate he is of her health. Mother: I wouldn’t be too sure. He might want her to blow the kitchen fire in the morning. Smith: “What’s wrong old'man? You look worried.” Jones: “I am. You know I had my life insured last week.” “Yes; but what has that got to do with it?” Jones: “Well, the very next day my wife bought a new cookery book. Possibly it’s all right; but it certainly looks suspicious.” He was Quick. —“To kiss me,” said she, thoughtfully, “a man would have to be either extraordinarily nice or extraordinarily quick. Now, of course, every man cannot be extraord aarily nice; but any man—if he isn’t pa.alysed—can ” He did!