Sunday, May 11, 2008

Concerning the Nightcap

1895

The nightcaps almost universally worn some 25 years ago are now quite as universally discarded. There is a diversity of opinion in regard to the wisdom of this change. While some doctors assert that there is much less baldness since they were abandoned, others declare, with equal fervor, that neuralgia and catarrh are much more common since the nightcap was banished from the wardrobe. — Philadelphia Press.


More of Both

Molly — Ned Croesus is a much better match than Charlie Bullion. His fortune is larger, and he has more intelligence.
Polly — You mean that he has not only more dollars, but more sense. — Reading (Pa.) Telegram.

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