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Show Watched Her Step. The lawyer was cross-examining a witness. "Do you happen to know," he asked, "what time it was when the wife of the defendant stepped into the taxicab in front of the National bank?" "Yes," replied the witness. "It was seventeen minutes past one." "Ah, it was seventeen minutes past one, eh? Now will you please tell the j'ury how you happen to be so positive that it was precisely seventeen minutes min-utes past one?" "Certainly," Baid the witness. "The lady was wearing an ankle, watch." Her Complaint. "I hear your wife is ill." "Yes, we called the doctor last night, and he spent an hour going over the history of her case. He even asked her about her shopping trip? ' and made her tell him about the new evening gowns, her new street gowns, her new hats, new shoes and new finery of every description." "That's odd. What d.d he figure was the matter with her?" "He diagnosed her ailment as a very severe case of newritis." Its Species. "Did that genealogist find you a good family tree?" "A good one? It's a peach!" Many a spinster is sorry she learned to say "no." Men laugh at feminine folly, but it fools them just the same. |
