MOTHERHOOD

A small boy invaded the lingerie section of a large department store and shyly presented his problem to a woman clerk in the lingerie department. “I want to buy a slip as a present for my mom,” he said. “But, I don’t know what size she wears.”

“Is she tall or short, fat or skinny?” asked the clerk.

“She’s just perfect,” beamed the small boy. So the clerk wrapped up a size 34 for him.

Two days later, Mom came to the store by herself and changed the slip to a size 52.913

A London editor submitted to Winston Churchill for his approval a list of all those who had been Churchill’s teachers. Churchill returned the list with this comment: “You have omitted to mention the greatest of my teachers—my mother.”914