WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1912.
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2 Bottles Gin
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If you are a man with friendo, you certainly know well the announcement
they are engaged to be married. Generally, the blow comes by lotter and you read: "I know you cannot fail to like her and all you will think is, that she is far too good for me. O my dear fellow... néed not recount his maptures.
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You conclude, in a melancholy unmarried manner, that they have fallen out of love.
One is tempted to suppose that it is easier to do this than the other. But you cannot fall out without having first fallen in. The differencs is that, once out of love, it is ever so hard to fall into it again; while, once in love, it is incredibly easy to fall out. But was it possible be never noticed that laugh? What miracle was it that concealed that steatness from her?
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Smoking and drinking Habits have stablished a firm hold upon Americans. according to Mr. R. E. Cabell, the United
You think it over and remember some States Commissioner of Intand Revenue. other fair person who laughs beautifully. He estimator that in the three months She is very different! She would never
And then comes the time when you see annoy one with her little ways. You ended September 30 laat the American the young lady, and find her to be just an says nothing, but you note bored
decribe her loringly to your friend. Bepublic
The Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering ordinary girl, rather protty perhape, but scepticism in his eyes. He recognises now
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with noticeable defects, like other girls that it is his tara to congratulate. You Particularly, you do not like the way she are in love, as he was. How long will it
be before you are out of love, like him laughs-so important a thing in woman.") W.M. in Daily Mirror.”
She laughs rather a lot, and not well," Bat
Smoked 3,800,000,000 cigarettes. Smoked 1,950,000,000 eigars. Drank 33,150,000 gallons of whisky, Drank 19,800,000 barrels of bear. Americans 1oom to have been afflicted with an unquenchable thirst and a vastly
about this you say nothing. Your simply eay-:-- Dear old chap, he is perfect. 1 congratulate you. You are a lucky fellow. SEARCH FOR HIDDEN TREASURE, Drassed hankering for tobacco, for all
"And he, poor man, beams all over, and you think yourself justified in assisting in that Great fifusion of being in love and getting married in consequence.
.
A Bankruptcy Romance.
The Bankruptcy Court is the last place
these figures, says the "New York Tele-
From
a," are greatly incrossed over those
of the same period for 1911. In the matter of cigarettes and cigars new high How the *If you are a woman with friends, yo
were established. know similar experience. You are told where one would expect to bear of a records that “He is such a dear and we are to be search for tidden treasure. Yet at the cigarette habit is growing is shown by married soon"; and you sooot him, and public examination recently before Mr. the fact that over 1,000,000,000 more find him an inoffensive boy with no parti Registrar Brougham of Arthur Ormsby cigarettes were smoked in those three
enlar attractions; and note that he shows
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́s alight tendency to be atout. But all you a story was unfolded of a treasure of months than in the corresponding three Duty and all other charges can be prepaid, if desired, -s9 you say in My dear, he's awfully nice. £11,000,000 said to have been buried by months of the previous year.
The cigar consumption sets a But so are you Kiss me. Good luck. I the Jesuit in Bscambays, Bolivia, oxá congratulate you." And she beams all their expulsion from Spanish dominions record; the increase in whisky consump over and make you to be her bridesmaid, if
in 1767. The debtor, who was described tion is 450,000 gallons, and the increase you happen to be still unmarried,
What in the matter with these people? 14 of an address in Green-street, Charing in beer drinking is 320,000 bazeals. Why cannot be become aware of that laugh? Cross, company promoter, roturned his Owing to the growing appetite for butter- milk se s summer drink the consump. Doesn't the seo that he is rather stout 7 abilities at £559. and his waste at £4. We excuse them, while they bore us excess
Examined by Mr. WP. Bowyer, tion of beer for the previous year had sively by remarking that they're in love. Official Receiver, the debtor said that for fallen off considerably. Four hundred
They marry and, time goes on and,
if you succeed is not quarzelling with his the last ten years he had carried on busi. thousand pounds more mouth is being wife or her husband, you, the friend of our nous as a general agent, It tras in collected from drinkers and anckers this typical instanos, continue to see them and September of last year that be became year than last owing to the incretiso in
drinking and stacking. from time to time to beer what they think comected with the schame to search for kof one smotheri
hulden treasury, the propoalton having You notice, with hình, thật st uble he remarks upon his wife's laugh; and the boon brought to him by a gentleman frum
Price $14 per indum, including postage. The OHINA MAIL, I., Wyndham Street girl who married now insists that her Bolivia.
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husband should eat lass, and prescriber a The genticipen in question told him diet because he's “getting disgracefully that be how whers - the treasure-us fat? Premonitory symptoms of love's last
lincs! The little ways" of each are located, and that he wanted to return to beginning to get on the nerves of the Bolivia in order to search for it. The other. Unos that laugh, that threatened debto said this, he approached certain obesity, wers but interuptions to a sweet perso
tirea scarcely noticed, or even loved for. themselves. Now they take up sormant to space, Little way, multiply and pre- dominate Boon the whole of life is com posed of them."
And then the time somer when he wante you to tell him why be married, while you, the other confidiant, arai med that ** all +men sro, pigs, M or Come tion of the kind. Ir
rance to the project, with of a party to go
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