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Show IT VAS EXPLAINED "Sli" said the little old woman in the street car up she tnocd along to where a man was reading a new.spa-' per. "can you tell me U the word 'hedging' has anything to do with politics?" pol-itics?" '"Why, It may have. What is the case?" '"Why. my man comes home and wants money to bet on TafL" "I see " "And In a day or two he wants some more to hedge on Roosevelt." "Just so." "And then he comes for money to bet on WilBOn." "Yes." "And then It Is for him to hedge on the other two." "I understand." "But how often can you bet and hedge?" "Just as long as the wife will furnish fur-nish II f money" " But what does she get out of it?" "Why. her husband gets the beer j and she gets dead broke." Tho little old woman thought It over for a bit and then whispered: "It's goin: to be different from now on." "Yen!" "The wife Is going to hedge and the husband in going to get his head broke " |