YOU KNOW HOW WOMEN ARE
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Dear friend, this season of ice and snowDoes not make love the colder grow,But on contrary pries apartWider the cockles of the heart.
'Tis years since we were boys togetherIn jolly winter and summer weather,'Tis years indeed since we have met,But our old friendship I'll ne'er forget.
Say, it'd surprise you how many of those cards a lot of hard-boiled old business men buy to send to fellows they haven't seen for years. I tell you, that fellow Manny Pillstein is a genius. Of course there've been greeting cards for years, but he was the first one to put the business on a scientific, nationally advertised basis, and really standardize and Fordize all this Holiday Good Will so it'd amount to something. They say he's increased the business 10,000 per cent.—made it as practical as chain grocery stores or even Mother's Day.
Well, I met Erica there at his place, and I was alone in New York, and I invited her to dinner, and I blew her to a nice little feed with a bottle of
