Actual extract from a sailor’s letter to his wife:
“Dear Jane,—I am sending you a postal order for 10s, which I hope you may get—but you may not—as this letter has to pass the Censor.”
EXTREMITY; MEANING FEET?
He—“I hear that you are knitting socks for the fighting soldiers.”
She—“Yes; man’s extremity is woman’s opportunity, you know.”
AS EVER
“Since the war began women have been taking the places of the men on the Paris street-cars.”
“Well, they’d do it here, but the men are too ill-mannered to get up.”