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Show A Joker Comeii to Gr1c They are laughing in one coterie about a voting fellow who haa come to disaster through being at once a joker with the boys and a masher with the girls lit the former capacity be ia ingenious and ex-peri ex-peri in playing tricks upon his fellows at the club. His hues t device waa what he called the "goblin squirt." It consisted ' of a scarf pin. the form of which was a comic fuce, calculated to make the observer ob-server look close at it, and this was attached at-tached to a water filled rubber bulb hidden under his shirt bosom. The practical working of this Invention was to press on the little tank at the instant wheu some curious friend had his face clohe to the nm and thus eject a tiny stream of water tpon him. Possibly there waa no great Kit in this Joke, but the chap enjoyed it fery much. The mintake tliat he made ! was in not putting abide the apparatus 1 when he went out in his capacity of i masher. i One wealthy maiden was understood to be his serious choice for a wife, and he was In the early stages of earuest endeavor en-deavor to win her. He called on ber. and Bat alongside her on a not too capacious lofa. They were in some sentimental conversation con-versation at close range. Ller face was far enough away from the scarf pin to latisfy the demands of propriety, and yet It was near by when he placed his hand with a passionate gesture on his heart. But between the palm and the heart lay tho little rubber bag. A squirt of water flew into the eyes of the maiden. It was r. dash of cold water on the romantic hopes of the poor fellow. How Is it known that It ended his courtship? Why. because be-cause the girl told the etory merrily to ail her acquaintances. She. wouldn't have ridiculed a love scene if she hadn't regarded re-garded it as terminal. New York Sua. |