THE WEAKER SEX.
“Look at her,” said the ironmonger. indicating a departing customer. “She: -ent her wringer here to be reр. 1 promised it her for this week provided that I could get a cc rtain new part in time from the makers. I couldn’t get it. Now she want- me to pay a c harwoman who с. mi* unnecessarily half-a-crown and twopence tram fare. Then she want- me to pay the laundry bill for the* clothes.” The ironmonger paused to breathe heavily. “But that’s not all. Her husband dines out on washday-, and as he* dined out on a washday which wasn’t a washday—\oci understand? she - tvs that I ought to pa\ foi his dinner. No, she doesn’t a-k anything else. And the\ call 'em the weaker sex!” —• “Mane he-ter (-uardian.”
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White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 234, 18 December 1914, Page 7
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132THE WEAKER SEX. White Ribbon, Volume 20, Issue 234, 18 December 1914, Page 7
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