HUNGARY: Lazy Little Lulus

Acquitted of fraud in Budapest last week, Bookseller Bischl triumphantly regaled reporters with the story of how he had sold 2,000 copies of a cookbook to women through the mails by advertising: This Book Is Guaranteed to Tell What A Girl Ought To Know Before Marriage.

That a female was actually aroused to the point of pocketing her dignity and suing Bookseller Bischl for fraud was due, he thought, to the real title (not advertised) of the book, Lazy Little Lulu Learns to Cook.

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