Dear Billy—What do you think is meant by “The shades of night were falling fast?”—Alice Blue.

When people are pulling down their curtains.

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Dear Captain Billy—I am appearing soon in a home talent show and would like to know how I can get a Salome costume. Can you help me?—Doris Doughnut.

Tie two brass fingerbowls together with a shoe-string.

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Dear Bill—I went out riding with a young man the other night and drank some champagne. Did I do wrong?—Mother’s Daughter.

Don’t you remember?

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