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Show BRIGHT SCHEME DIDN'T WORK Overly Frank Criticism Caused Bride to Drop Her Deaf-and-Dumb Pose Suddenly. A newly married couple hit upon the idea of pretending to be deaf and dumb whilst on their honeymoon. At the station they started talking on their fingers and overheard the following remarks : "It's a newly married couple," said a lady. "The poor things are deaf and dumb. Isn't it awful?" "What do you suppose he saw in her?" asked the other. "Site is positively posi-tively ugly.' "And I believe her hair is dyed." said the first woman. "And her hat Is out of date," was the next startler. "Looks like an old one," was the reply. re-ply. "Her dress wrinkles in the back," said the first. "She's thirty-five if she's a day; and she looks as if she had a frightful temper." At this point the bride found her tongue, and her remarks to those two women left no doubt about her having that important article that women are supposed to exercise so freely. |