Show HUMOR OF THE HOUR Do you take fuel in exchange for subscriptions sub-scriptions asked the caller at the country coun-try newspaper office once What have you gota poem Yonkers Yonk-ers Statesman S Worth the TrOublCtliss Swift is learn Swlts ing to ride a wheel she tells me But she rode one last year Why does she have to learn again Another fellow is teaching herLife Social Philosopher Fifty years ago our statemen and orators loomed up among the first in the world Where are they now Able Editortrn newspaper offices New York Weekly Not His Kind Intemperance said the longhaired passenger is the crying evil of the day Aint with me said the fat passenger I I always glt the singing kind Never had a crying jag in my life Indianapolis Journal His Complaint Landlady Have you given up your wheel Mr Jones BoarderI havent been riding much lately me I find that it doesnt agree with Landlady How Boarder It increases my appetite Puck Short Engagements Little BoytHow soon are you and sis gain to be married Accepted SutorShe has not named the day yet I hope she does not believe in long engagements Little BoyShe doesnt I know cause all her engagements has been short Town and Country Journal Sydney Mrs BinnII understand that man in the flat under us is at work on a patent contrivance that will make a fire consume con-sume its own smoke Mr BnnWell I wish he would turn his attention to some device that would compel hJm to burn his own fuel His coal bins adjoins oursYonkers Statesman States-man Retiring Mistress Mary I dont approve ap-prove of your entertaining your young man in tho kitchen Well mum hes too shy to come in the parlorLlfe Bobble you are perfectly awful today and just when grandma Is visiting us too tooWell Well ma its only to please you You told me the other day that you thought I kept my good manners for visitors only Harpers Bazar |