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Show Natursliy. "Is aviation an expensive profession co follow?' "Well, I should think It would come under the head of Lhe cost jf high living. ' ; Grafter's Argument. A grafter generally eases his mind with the thought that the people from whom he collected the money had no business with it in the first place. Philosophy. "He's a philosopher?" "So?" "Yes indeed. It doesn't .worry him at all to see other people getting thiugs that he doesn't want himself." Sweet Revenge. "Why. I didn't think Mrs. Dodds could afford to have her little girls take piano lessons." "She can't, but she wants to get even with the family in the flat next to hers." Mr. Meek Moralizes. "Sometimes," confessed skimpy little Mr. Meek, "I feel that I have almost as much to say about the management of our home as a clam does about a clam bake." Michel Angelo's Start. Michael Angelo begun his career by burying in the earth a statue which he carved, and thus turning it Into u valued "antique." Daily Thought. Cheerfulness Is like money well expended ex-pended in charity the more we dis-lense dis-lense of it the greater our possessions. Hugo. Unsatisfactory Explanation. Heiny "1 wonder why they call it a football game?" Omar "Why, suppose it's because they kick the ball." Heiny "But there Is Just as much kicking done in a baseball game." For a Stained Chafing Dish. The green and blue stains left by the fumes of the alcohol lamp cz ' chafing dish can be removed by tS bing with a soft cloth moistened Wo ammonia. A Sense of Humor. Green "What is a sense of humor?" Brown "A sense of humor Is that which makes you laugh at something (hat happens to somebody else which would make you angry if It happened to you! Case of Necessity. "I understand he inherited a fortune?" for-tune?" "Yes, he was his rich uncle's only heir." "I thought so." "What do you mean?" "Nobody who had more than one heir to choose from would have picked him to leave all his money to." Detroit Free Press. Mistress of Her Craft. Mrs. Hitherto "Have you an experienced expe-rienced maid?" The Employment Agent "I can send you one who has had sp much experience she can break steel enamel picnic dishes." Dreadful possibility. Little Margie had heurd her Sunday school teacher speak of backsliding, and one rainy Sabbath morning her mother thought it best for her not to attend Sunday school. "But I've just got to go, mamma." said Margie. "Teacher says if we do not come every Sunday our backs will slide." Her Father Noticed It. "I suppose it Is hardly necessary for me to tell you, sir, that 1 am in Jovewltli your daughter?" said the trembling suitor. "Not at all, young man!" replied her father. "And, furthermore, I've seen enough Idiotic symptoms In the last month to convince con-vince me that your passion is reciprocated. recipro-cated. ' |