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Show To Think and to Know. A Charleston housewife being suddenly sud-denly deserted by her cook advertised for another, stipulating that applicants must bring good references. The only response to the advertisement w-as a very fat and very black old woman who Beemed promising until she was asked for her references. "Deed, lioney, Ah done tore up dem references," she responded. "Destroyed your references? How unusual. Don't you realize that that must cause people to suspect that you are not a good servant?" "Tassum, maybe dat's so," the applicant appli-cant agreed. "Yo' des 'speck Ah ain't er good serbent, but ef Ah had brung dem references yo'd know Ah was crazy 1" |