My Little Margie #22

When Margie tells her father's guest—a Golden Gloves boxing champion—that Dad was quite the boxer himself, she's stretching the truth just a bit. Now Dad has to improvise his way through an invitation to spar, with only Margie's quick thinking standing between him and a very embarrassing match with a real fighter.

When Margie gets a look at her father's workplace's latest marvel—a super-smart electronic brain—she can't resist testing it with a few questions of her own. But the machine quickly proves it can handle anything *except* Margie's particular brand of indecision, sending it into an overheating frenzy with each impossibly complicated question she throws at it. What starts as innocent curiosity turns into a comedy of mechanical meltdown as the poor brain struggles to keep up with a young woman who can't make up her mind.

When Simple Saima longs for a taste of adventure and fame, she spots her chance at a swank hotel luncheon honoring a famous author—and impulsively crashes the party posing as the guest of honor, Madame Puree. What follows is a comedic whirlwind of mistaken identity as she breezes through interviews and questions with improvised answers that somehow charm the crowd, all while enjoying free sandwiches. But every masquerade has its moment of reckoning, and Saima's brush with celebrity takes an unexpected turn when the real Madame Puree finally arrives.

Margie enthusiastically practices first aid on anyone willing to hold still, but when a boy schemes to fake an injury with ketchup to capture her attention, his plan spirals into comedic chaos that he never saw coming. This 1958 humor story shows that sometimes the best-laid schemes backfire in the most embarrassing ways.