Salt Lake Telegram | 1902-06-20 | Page 4 | A Moment with the Funny Man

V VA A MOMENT WITH THE F FUNNY NN Y MAI MArS Jangle Myo Ping My wife is given given given en to 10 hasty words Not Pong Not the same here mines mine's flow of languor lang is long and continual Baltimore Herald Excellent Suggestion Gardener 1 Here sir ir are arc a few dead trees that will have to be felled New Owner Owner Its Its It's too bad to lose them Why not raise dri dried d fruit on New thEm New York Times j And Heart Heartt True Maybe Maybe 1 Mrs Jones JonesI I 1 I dont don't s see what she wanted to marry him for he has a Q cork leg log a glass eye and false teeth Mrs Smith Smith Well Well my dear you know know- women always did have a hankering j after remnants Smart Smart Set Days and I NIghts I suppose yo you ha have ve read The Last Days Dau of Pom- Pom 4 pen pail ii said the literary lite girl No answered the girl who ho isn't lit literary lIterary literary lIt lIt- but Is willing to try I haven't i read The Last Days of ot PompeU at Pompeii at least hot not all of 01 them themi but I have read most of the Arabian Nights Wash Vash VashI I I ington Star 1 Had Been There Before Bor Before Boreman J. J Hello Sharpe Well I tell you Im I'm glad to get back again Sharpe Back Sharpe Back from where 1 BorE Boreman Why Borman-Why Why Ive I've been in Europe for a month and I had lots Jots of intEresting interesting inter intEr- esting exper- exper exper exper- Sharpe Sharpe Shake Shake Ive I've been visiting in le for a w week weck eek and I tell teU you ou ou I Iwas Iwas Iwas was surprised with the place Let me rae metell metell tell you about it You see What see What going go go- ing lag Well weal so long long Detroit Detroit Free Press Poor Poor John John John you were at your club clui last t night Yes By the Way ulay lay this Martinique l eruption eruption tion has bean bren going on for tor a week or orso orso orso so hasn't it Certainly my dear doar What's the id idea a Nothing except you came home last night weeping great greot sobs of fermented grief and declaring that Vesuvius hid had barl hurled of our loved loyed ones into to without a moments moment's warning Of course its it's all right if you want to mourn the dear departed e arted and switch Vesuvius over O into the West Ve Indies and of or of- of But the door slammed viciously and he lie had went hence Baltimore Baltimore News THE TEE WORD TREACLE The word tr treacle cJe say slY an exchange has undergone some odd modifications it was applied to such uch decorations decorations deco deco- 1 rations of roots or other substances as asere I were ere deemed beneficial in medical pi P c c- c tiC tice j then as these were w-re frequently 1 sw sweetened It came to mean any sweet concoction or confection arId anid lastly as molasses was us the sw sweetest test of all this name I wes was as exclusively applied to syrup But treacle has ne never ner r been used i-eed as a term terra of endearment for the fair fall sex as have most other sweet things thing has become clas clas- tl sic Your sweetness sure all else surpasses surpasses- And that's why I libya Ilove love you Applies s equally well to girls girl or treacle but bu one wouldn't dare to compare gills to treacle