Show < WIT AND HUMOR Baltimore Life The Widows Sister And you hay youll always love him nom no-m ttcr what happens The Young AMdow Yes even If we should get married Chicago Record Stebbins wife Is going go-Ing to make him go In for geology Whats that for She cant make him keep himself tidy and she thinks If he ia scientific it wont I be noticed I Chicago News Mr PeckhamAnd when the fellow approached you and wanted to accompany you horns what did I you say Mrs PeclchamSay I didnt say any tS1Ya dua b rd r thing I couldnt 1 was stricken dumb i Mr Peckham muslngI wish I had been there Yonkers Statesman Laura When Bob proposed last night did you know what was coming i Lucretia No I didnt know papa was i within hearing neither did Bob Poor Bob I Cleveland Leadsr Kathleen Moorfay Is an enigma to me How so I i nand since her father has become rich i n-and theyve been admitted to society I I have nevar heard her claim to be descended I descend-ed from Irish kings I Boston Transcript The New Secretary I j I have taken the advertising pages from I j tho Killlklnlck Magazine and rebound the remaining pages in a separats cover i I Lover of Literature AH right you may bring jne the advertising pages You can 1 I throw away the others I London Punch First Loafer inspecting Inspect-ing a billboard to Second DittoI say Bill whats a cycle of sonS son-S cond Ditto Dont yer know hIts h-Its one of them newfangled bikes wot I play a toon as yer roll along jest like a barrelhorgan I Washington Star Im free to admit I remarked Farmer Corntossel that I wont never git through demandln mora prosperity I I But you are In comfortable circumstances circum-stances What do you mean by prosperity I Theres jes the difficulty I means somethin different fur everybody Ef youve got a mortgage prosperitys get tin I paid off Ef yeve got I paid off prosperitys ownin a cabinet organ Ef yeve got a cabinet organ prosperitys bavin enough to be able to trad I in fur a grand pieanno an so on without no limit whatsomever Yes your grace as nearly as we can 1 gce nery calculate i Then all I can say remarked the duchess Is that you must bars wonderful wonder-ful good eyes to make out that stars strs name at that distance even with this big telescope Its really most marvelous I She Paid the Fee Hawkins was tin eccentric old man and I in his will it was found that he had made j his youngest son Henry his sols heir on condition that he should marry within two years It was a surprise to the com I I mUnlty as Henry was rar worthless fellow fel-low and rarely on friendly terms with his father i I Henry at once became the topic of conversation 1 con-versation Evsrybody istoP wondering what mystery wou d develop from such an odd beginning and there were dozens of stories i afloat gtoa ge effect that Hawkins I I was a miser and had left bundles of money i i mon-ey hidden in odd corners of his rickety old i shanty that had become the sole property t of his son OfH Henrys name soon drifted Into the papers I pa-pers all over the country As a result i bushels of letters from marriageable wo ues do WJ I rI g hl men and wlidvlsloned girls came to him In the form of letters X > f proposal On the last day of the allotted two years Henry Hawkins and Belinda Jones stood I mony in the justices ofllcs ready for the cere I I could only feel sure that you love I me and that you are not to marry me for money how nanny I would be said j Henry j But you ought to know protested Belinda linda that It Is because I love > you for I you know that I have 10000 of my own though of coursj that is nothing to your fortune I The ceremonv was nerformed So you love me for myself alone Belinda I Be-linda said Hawkins Just you and nothing else insisted the bride of a moment Im so glad said Hawkins tenderly Its a gr at relief for my money Is all a I myth the justice Belinda Will you please pay 2 to |