Show SHE TELLS THE SEX BY THE COUGH Mrs has a bid bad cold one of those long iong lingering colds and lately she has had hod to add to to her discomforts some coughing spells and Mr Dir has tried to be very sympathetic and when he hears somebody coughing In n the flat overhead he says theres there's somebody coughing upstaIrs upstairs upstairs up up- stairs nowMan now now Man Dian or woman says Mrs er Man Dian or woman repeats Mr Flat- Flat dweller Why how should I know And he adds with what Is Intended to be pleasant good humor humor- I cant can't through see see through the ceiling and the floor you know You iou dont don't have to to Mrs bars says I l sho should ld think you could tell teli that by the sound of the cough they dont don't cou Dough cough h anything at all alike They dont don't says the astonished Mr 1 the difference and then says Mrs Why one coughs with a mans man's voice and the other coughs with a womans woman's v voice And at that Dir Mr said noh- noh nothIng Ing ng aloud but he said sald to himself that that was the rho first time ime he ever knew that the sex of an unseen cougher could be told by he the the sound of the cough |