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Show Newspaper Waifs. Young Minister (receiving gift of fountain foun-tain pen) "Thank you. I hope I shall now be able to write better sermons." The Lady "I hope so." Boston Transcript. Tran-script. "Bliggins tries to be cheerful." "Yes," commented Mr. . Groucher: "he tries so hard that he makes himself and everyone else uncomfortable." Washington Star. Silas (in a whisper) "Did you git a peep at the underworld at all while you wuz in New York, Ezry?" Ezra "Three times, b'gosh! Subway twice an' ratscel-lar ratscel-lar once." Buffalo Express. "Two years are required to produce a full grown oyster." "I don't think I'd iike the business," declared the old cattleman. cat-tleman. "Why not?" "Not enough to show for your effort. Why, you could raise a steer in the same length of time." Kansas City Journal. |