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Show Airy Persiflage. Irvin S. Cobb, who tells stories as well si he writes them, breezed into our office the other day with a new one. A girl from the mountain regions of Kentucky went to a dentist to have a tooth filled. After the dentist had excavated the decayed molar he produced pro-duced a tube connected with the compressed com-pressed air tank and proceeded to clean out the cavity. Thinking that the operation might be painful, he said to the girl: "Does that air hurt?" "That air what?" asked the girl. New York World. |