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Show WILL REFLECT IN THE FUTURE Mr. Pozozzle Has found out That Occasionally Oc-casionally Smartness Does Not Pay. -"Yesterday," said Mr. Pozozle ruefully, rue-fully, "I had it brought forcibly home to me that there is a vast difference between a smart man and a smart alec. A smart man may possess a discriminating dis-criminating sense of humor, but a smart alec is one of those feeble-minded folk who send out funny boomerangs boomer-angs on the slightest provocation and they always come back and hit him with whizzing sound. This is how I made the discovery: Mrs. Pozozzle and I were out for our daily constitutional. constitu-tional. You know some people walk to get thin, but my wife is different she walk1 to get fat. Fat is the one dear hope of Mrs. Pozozzle's existence. exist-ence. She would like to be upholstered. uphol-stered. Last evening she said to me: 'Oliver, if I could just get fifteen pounds, even, I would be so much happier.' hap-pier.' 'Fifteen pounds?' said I, the smart alec, 'Do you mean avoirdupois or English currency?' She is too smart for me, that wife of mine, and she saw her chance. 'This time,' she answered sweetly, 'I will choose the currency.' And I had to figure out the amount ln our money and make good." |