A Women's Meeting.

A lecturer was addressing a meeting of women on the duties of the housewife, and remarked that it was the duty of every woman to mother her husband.

Wishing to see what impression this had made, he asked all those to stand who were willing to mother their better halves. Only one stood up.

“Ah!” he exclaimed. “I am pleased to see there is at least one who is willing to mother her husband.”

“Mother my husband!” cried the woman. “I thought you said smother!”

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