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Show I Phosphorous enough for. a box of matches. ! Sulphur enough to rid a dog of f ! fleas. " j These ingredients would cost about I 89 cents at any comer drug store. ) Mrs. Putman said so much about i this that Thomas Jeffeason couldn't sleep until he had figured out the value of a woman. Woman, he says, lias been proved to contain: Starch enough to be stuck on her-; her-; self. Brass enough to butt in anywhere. Potassium enough to explode a toy pistol. Gall enoguh to embitter the sweetest sweet-est male disposition. Paint enough for an Italian sunset. Powder enough to blow, up a drea-naught. drea-naught. Perefum enough to gas a regiment. i All of which can be had in any department de-partment store far 32 cents. I He woke his wife to. tell her this, ' and the next morning Thomas Jeffer- son got his own breakfast. Holstein Breeder and Dairyman. THE VALUE OF THE SEXES Thomas Jefferson Putman, who is connected with the Colorado Agriculture Agricul-ture College and calls himself "Specialist "Spe-cialist in Rural Devilment," reports that his wife recently read to him the bid scientific determination of the value of a man from a mineral standpoint. stand-point. The scientists say that the ingredients in-gredients of a man are: Fat enough for a bar of laundry soap. Iron enough for two hails. Sugar enough to fill a teacup. Lime enough to whitewash a chicken chick-en coop. |