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Show JUST FOR FUN She Want3 to Know. "This here 'From Capo to Cairo' movement," said 'Mrs, jlo Stylo. "What Is It?" "I don't get you," growled her husband. hus-band. "Why, 1 know that ladles have stopped wearing capes. Hut what is u calro?" Kansas City Journal. Bocton Repartee. Kind Old Lady (to little boy crying over a cut flngci) What's tho matter mat-ter Eddie? . Eddie (sobbing) Thero Isn't any matter. Kind Old Lady Well, then,, dear, novor mind. " ' Eddie I never do. Judge. Hiding, "1 canjt bear to boo my mother doing do-ing tho'housowork,"( "Is that why you always read a novel?" ' $ Told of Two Cltlco. Two of thouo cranks who do that florl of thing were dobatlng therola- Uvo merits of St. Louis and Kansas City. "At any rate, wo don't have to call this a city," said the St. Louis man. "Nor do wo have to call our town a saint," the other retorted. St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Optical. "I 'specks Mistah "Rastus Plukley Is In trouble." said Miss Miami Brown. "I-fls' oveninK I auw dc toardrops Rtreamln' down his face." "'Doni -warii't teardrop." replied I ;Il88 Cloopatra Jackson. "Ho dca pot hisso'f n little splntlored up llllln' his Christmas glf fountain inon," $' Footgear of Angels. On tho steeple of iho old Unlvrr-nallBt Unlvrr-nallBt Churrh In Bath. jMe . thoro In a wooden figure of an angr-l It Is not a remarkably lino specimen of art. and hlis nlwayn been somewhat laugh-od laugh-od a bon U' especially because of Us hlgh-hcclcd. shoes. The Bath Enterprise recalls the Qtorv t,hat a former pastor of Iho WtTr iCftngreljaflonaf (Vuutb. onre accosted a devoted Univereallst with tho question: "M.r. Raymond, did you over see an ungol with hlgh-hcolcd shoes on Us feet?" "Why no," answored Mr. Raymond. "I can't say that I ever did: luit did you over soo one without them?" Pittsburg Chronlclc-Telograph. Every Precaution Taken. During a recent smallpox epidemic In Alabama special precaution against the disease wero taken In the mining camps. In ono of those camps the president of tho mining company paid a visit of Inspection and camo upon nn old negro leaing against the side of a building. "Jnke," asked tho president, "are you afraid of tho smallpox out hero0" "Somo nmv ho, sah," Jako replied "As to' me, I nln't scahed; I's Jest do smallpox, 'twon't he nothln' but do celluloid." Woman's Homo Com-quioop Com-quioop op uop ,uu losnoq iruin oiuiu quiu 01UUJ98US. ,nu dn .npnoo ,oi( US op oav jj 'ticsirap 'jnp os JXiqranj II ,nu onii otuos qui loS uoi ouja3 panlon. Spurring Him On. "You don'l tacklo work like you did football son." "Tho surroundings aro different, father." "I guosg that's so. Maybo It would help If I Instructed the other clorksto plve ynur collego yell occasionally." Kansas City Journal. |