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Show Could He? Said Mr. Henpeck, who had just overheard his wife scolding the maid: "You and I seem to be in the same unfortunate position, Mary." "Not likely!" replied the maid. "I'm giving her a week's notice tomorrow." His Prerogative The conversation had turned on the ways of wives. "Well," said Brown, "when my wife and I have an argument I always have the last word." "Oh," exclaimed someone. "You do?" Brown nodded. "Yes. I apologize." Trouble seems to be a patriotic affliction. It makes the eyes red, the hair white and the feelings blue. Some Reputation Magistrate Is the prisoner a known thief? Constable A known thief? Why, he'd steal the harness of a nightmare. night-mare. Not Kidding "See that bevy of quail in the underbrush?" "Yes." "Well, watch me shoot a hole clear through the red barn behind 'em." "A monologue," wrote the school boy, "is a conversation between be-tween two people, such as husband and wife." ... t 0n'y He Know. Mistress-Marie, you tertaimng a man t last night, weren't vm, Marie-That's for?, ' ma'am. But I tried myH Should Know Xhem There was a scream of brl bus pulled to a sudden LZ a"( red-looking Pe'?. dithering m the roadway " Crimson with strain 'and n driver leaned out of ha L plain he was controllis i;' ' i a great effort as he asked Tl-'1 ' -y'oskwiiir Too Binding Insurance Agent-I tat. . favor a straight life ooit Client-Well, no. lfc! out once in a while. F' Seizing Opportunity sPllrh?tDoor-DubH Housewife-Why, certainly i, Man Fine. Let me use ir phone. c k Earth's Goodness This earth must pass into e'- L mty before the good of which ii susceptible is all developed." C Charles Dickens. |