MARION SAMBOURNE’S DIARY 1907
Notes in front of diary Mrs Cooper, Palace Villas, Buxton Nurse Davis left & Vince came (15 June). 3 months wages 13th Sep, Vince. 13 weeks washing Day go to Edgar. (6 Sept) alas postponed. (some illeg numbers on next page) £25 a year, 6 months £ 7. 15. 0 7.15. 0 15.10. 0 Write the figures 9999 in such a way to make 100 = 99. 9 9 Why is the Prince of Wales like 15/-? Because it only takes a crown to make him a sovereign. Name 3 fruits in the Garden of Eden “The apple, the pear, & the beastly medler.” A lunatic was observed to be wheeling a wheelbarrow upside down. On being asked why he said “Yesterday I wheeled it the other way & they put bricks in it.” A gentleman visiting a lunatic asylum observed that the clock was wrong. An inmate replied “It would not be right if it was here, or if it was right it would not be here.” Words selected by the 4 boys at Midge’s for Charades, “ Potatoes” & Propagate” & they brought in whole word of the word Badminton as “Bad mint on peas”. The Right Honourable William Ewart Gladstone (using each of these letters & no more) makes “I am the Whig who’ll be a Traitor to England’s Rule.” Mr Mond M.P. speaking to his constituents said his work had been greatly lightened by the aid of his better half, when someone amongst the crowd shouted “Three cheers for the Demi Mond!” A gentleman American told a lady the walls of his hotel were so thin he could hear the man in the next room to his changing his mind! A lady who always bowed reverently in church whenever the Devil or Satan’s name was mentioned, when asked why she said “Politeness costs nothing & you never know.”
1