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Show The War Spirit. A fat "colored mammy" of the "old school" was hauled into court for throwing her washing hoard at her neighbor's husband, a "Georgia Cracker" Crack-er" of the "poor white trash" variety. va-riety. "Did you strike this man with a washboard?" Judge Broyles asked. "I spec' I did, yo honah." "What was the provocation?" "We wuz discussin wan, jedge." "Well go on." "We wuz talkin' 'bout dem Ger-mings, Ger-mings, an' John's Bulls and dem Frenchmens, and he done said I was nutral, yo, honah. I ain't gwine ter let no low-down white trash call me dat." Case and Comment. Good Times. Henry Ford, praising the good times, in New York, said: "The good times are spread the country over. There isn't a spot that hasn't got its share. "Anybody who can contemplate these times with optimism must have a disposition like the bookkeeper's wife. , "The bookkeeper said one day at dinner: " 'Gee, I wish I could get up an appetite ap-petite for once!' " 'Oh, go on, John,' said his wife, impatiently. 'What do you want an appetite for? It would only give you more dyspepsia.'" Cause for Anxiety. "Gadspur tells me that while on his vacation this summer he was tossed . about on one of the great lakes in a disabled launch for forty-eight hours before being rescued." "That must have been a harrowing experience." "Indeed it was. During all that time he didn't have the slightest idea of what the stock market was doing." Thought He Could Fix Goat. "Papa," said a little boy, "I want a goat." "Why, son, you can't have a goat; he'd hook you." 'Well, daddy, then I'd cut his horns off." "Nothin 'doin', son, he'd butt you." "Aw, daddy, then I'd cut his buttons off. Please get me a goat." There are said to be 800 uses for the palmyra palm, which grows throughout tropical India. A seismograph invented by a Japanese Jap-anese scientist registers the velocity of all earthquakes two hundredfold. One mine in New Zealand last year produced $13,821,651. The door of hope swings both ways. |