One morning a young woman, who had recently lost her first post, was ex***ning the advertisements in the paper in search of other work. Suddenly she called out to her mother, who was in the kitchen.
“Listen to this, Mother!” she cried. “I’ve found an easy way of making money.”
“What is it?” her mother asked,ing into the room.
“Listen,” said the girl, and read the advertisement aloud.“Do you want to make money? Send me a postal order for five shillings, together with a stamped, addressed envelope.You will receive a reply showing you how to make hundreds of pounds with out leaving your house. Then there’s a name and address.”
“Nonsense!” said her mother. “You’ll only lose shillings and the cost of a postal order and two stamps. If he knows how to do that, why doesn’t he do it himself? Why does he need to advertise? You won’t get an answer.”
“Well, five shillings isn’t much,” she said. “I can try.” She went to the post office, bought a postal order, and sent it off.
Two or three days later she received an envelope with a small piece of paper in it. On the paper were four words: “Do as I do.”
The internationally famous tennis star, who traveled constantly, was tired of having to spell her name for hotel desk clerks, “Take it off my luggage,” she once ordered impatiently.
Three days went by with no calls, so the athlete checked with the desk to see how she was registered. The guest book read：“Miss Engli