Show JUST A FEW JOKES I SHORT ITEMS MEANT TO CAUSE A SMILE Sad End of the Once Noble Ranger ol the JungleWriter Was Holding till OwnThe Appropriate Thing foi Nurltcha Baby A Suggestion Mr SlomanNow youre joking again arent you Miss Waltc Judgo for yourself you should know mo pretty well by this timeMr Mr Sloman But you puzzle me sometimes I dont know what to make of you Miss Waltc No By tile way did you hear about Jack Brown and May Long Ho made her his wife yesterday yester-day Holding His Own IJ e How are you getting on ylth your writing for tho magazines Just holding my own They send me Lack as much as I send them Couldnt Hear It The lady who moved in yesterday I deceived mo said the rental agent apologetically She said she had no children but I understand she has a baby Did it disturb you No answered Mr Flatdweller They tell mo It cried some during the night but tho noise was drowned by the howls of Smiths dog and tho shrieks of Mrs Browns parrot Detroit De-troit Tribune The Decline of Poetry That was an exquisite poem you had in the paper this morning said the old subscriber Where did you get it Eh Oh the poem said the editor edi-tor Why I bought it Then he apologetically added You see I knew the poor fellow who wrote it and I wanted to help him along As Its Papa Eats Oh yes Nuritnhs baby was born I with a silver spoon In Its mouth of course Its a curious iooking child takes after its father doesnt It No Indeed If it took after Hi father It would have been born with a silver knife In Its mouth Moving Cheese Will you start the cheese this way please said the thin boarder at dinner din-ner Its not time for cheese yet said the fat boarder No but If you start It now it will probably get here by tho time Im ready for ItYonkers Statesman Scraped It Together Family FriendWell how are things Young PreacherFine Tho congregation congre-gation actually raised my salary this month Family FriendHow much was the Increase Young Preacher There was no increase in-crease They merely raised It thats all Houston Chronicle The Mining Link Them three men 1 Farmer Border replied to a question thems our farmhands farm-hands But asked the city girl where3 the other one What other one Why theres always a quartet ot them to sing the Old Oaken Bucket isnt there Natural Enough TessMrs Foartey doesnt eally show her ago at all does slid JessNo Its not surprising considering con-sidering all her trouble TessYou mean It is surprising considering her troubles shes had JosINo I mean considering all the trouble shes token to conceal It A Bitter End The tigerskin rugWell hang It To think that after my noble career I should be trampled upon by a hlng like thlslJester Blocked Im afraid my hay fever is coming on said Klosoman trying to got somo medical advice free of charge Every once In a while I feel an itching In my nose and then I sneeze What would you do In a case like that doctor doc-tor I feel pretty sure replied Dr Sharp that I would sneeze too Suspicious Lawson What kind of coffee do you drink Brazilian or Mocha T Davrson You will have to ask the Unwrter Tho grocer calls It Mocha |