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Show Looking Through Him The aggressive wife of a meek little man was hauling her husband hus-band over the coals for having made a fool of himself when some friends called. He sat in dejected silence. "And don't sit there," she shouted, shout-ed, "making fists at m,e in your pockets, either." HE KNEW Defendant I don't know what I'd have done if it hadn't been for you. Lawyer You'd have done time. Wouldn't Hold Him to It Father Didn't you promise me to be a good boy? Son Yes, father. Father And didn't I promise you a thrashing if you weren't? Son Yes, lather, but as I've broken my promise you needn't keep yours. Ready and Willing She had gone to the fortuneteller fortune-teller and had listened with increasing in-creasing interest to the sketch of her life as portrayed in the lines of her palm. "Madam," said the fortune-teller, in his most impressive manner, man-ner, "you should be very, very happy. A nobler man than your husband you have yet to meet." "How absolutely thrilling!" gushed the woman. "But when?" Sometimes a man spends years seeking the ideal woman. And in the meantime he gets married. Quite a Bit at That "He boasts he runs things in his house." "He does the lawn-mower, washing machine, vacuum cleaner and the errands!" Backed Out Police-Inspector Got away, has he? Did you guard all the exits? Constable Yes, sir; but we think he must have slipped out through one of the entrances. Still at It The customer couldn't see eye-to-eye with the taxicab driver on the matter of fare. Finally he said in exasperation: "See here I haven't been riding in cabs for ten years for nothing." "No, but I'll bet you've been trying try-ing to," retorted the driver. Said the sour old spinster: "All men aren't cast in the same mold. Some are moldier than others." Should Improve "What are you doing at the university?" uni-versity?" "Taking medicine." "Feeling better?" Break Away "I wonder if I shall live to be a hundred." "Not if you remain forty-one much longer!" |