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Show Bug's Eggs. Superintendent Comer of the Wlntes-:dwn Wlntes-:dwn schools took some figs, which his mother intended for cooking, without ber knowledge. The following conversation con-versation ensued : "Did you get some of the figs, Philip?" "Yes." "What did you do witli them?" "I threw them away." 1 "What did you do that for?" "Well, mother, I bit into one and it h..d bug's eggs in it, and I wasn't going to eat bug's eggs, was 1?" Indianapolis In-dianapolis News. Doctors Declare Music Heals. Music, as a powerful healing agency foi physical as well as mental mala-, dies, was one of the principal topics vf discussion at the annual meeting of the Tri-State Medical association at Memphis recently. Approximately 250 physicians and surgeons from Missouri, Mis-souri, Arkansas and Tennessee heard this subject discussed. The physicians were enthusiastic in boosting music as a healer and classed it, in certain circumstances, cir-cumstances, as almost as effective as drugs. Not in the Defying Business. "I see where a scientist has discovered dis-covered bow to hurl thunderbolts," said the garrulous stranger. "Well," replied the crusty old gentleman gen-tleman who was absorbed In a book, "the discovery means nothing to me. Let him hurl bis thunderbolts. My name's not Ajax It's Smith." Birmingham Bir-mingham Herald. Fitting a Shoe. "The shoe won't fit her and that's the trulli." "Can't you stretch the (ruth a little?" asked the boss. There never was a rich man who , didn't do, more kindly deeds thnn he was given credit for. Raid Hairpin Stands. The universality of the acquisitive instinct is shown by the number of women who take away hairpins from an uptown hairdressing establishment. Each cubicle contains a tray on which are scattered varicolored hairpins. A member of the fair sex may have her coiffure surfeited with the wiry holders, hold-ers, yet she will stuff what she can find into her bag. "It eez the habit, perhaps," sighed the artist of the wave, "nor do 7.0 ladies care what color their hair may be; dark pins or light pins, It eez nil the same to them." Chicago Journal. Sold at Last. Persistency in inserting the same advertisement, ad-vertisement, with 110 change of wording word-ing or illustration, is a trait of some, advertisers. A prospective customer wrote to a firm whose advertisement never seemed to change: "Have noted your picture of one pair corduroy pants In 'Home Magazine' Maga-zine' for past four months. More I see of them better I like them. If not sold as yet, please enter my order for same." Forbes Magazine. " The Common Conversation. "So you want to put a radio outfit in Crimson Gulch?" "That's the Idea," answered the affable af-fable stranger. "You can sit down of an evening and bear what's goin' on for miles around." "That wouldn't Interest anybody much. All we'd be likely to bear fur miles around would be 'gimme three cards' or 'that's good,' or such remarks." re-marks." Washington Star. The more reputation a man has the more disappointed other men are when fhe meet him. All who Joy would win must shr '6 it happiness was born a twin. |