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Show H 1 LET US LAUGH ', H J AND BE MERRY , S POOGHKBEPSIK florist tells of a Vabar girl who came to hirn with a request for floweri. to be placed in j H two large wiudows. (l H "They must be rwl and blue." said hc, , ( H as blic g.ive a critical glance about her at , H the blooms displayed. "That lot of lobelias! H ' wm do err ulccly. How much are these: ." H she addcl, pointing to some flaming lj H , C-F"Sn cop, four for fifty cents." ji 1 - iM "he florist. "Mighty hne geraniums, 1 'A8'glance of pity was. btoWC(l upon ; B him by the Vasiar girl. Then, most do li-j H Mtclyf L If not to v-ound the florist i' H feelings b the crrectiAn. h1i addedt H lcT.r will take a dozen of your best Hl gcrania.' A"- DEATt little thing of Baltimore hut recently married iusMcd that the marketing for their first dinner 'at H home should be done by herself. 1 - "Nice fiuartcr of lamb, md'am," polite- H Lr j,-cested the butcher when she hail H' announced hr intention of teeing that H i nonry waB to have "just the very best j r ' dinner vcr." "Nice quarter of Limb, H "Th'bride's face wrinkled in thought. H "But " said she, "thrre aro onlv two of H ?r Don't you think an eighth would H r,ufflce?" 1" N South Carolina, where the dhpeu-( sary byatem obtains, there flourish . various "clubs" where thirsty- souls H from other parts may after certaiu for-i malities obtain their liquid refreshments. H In this connection a prominent actor! H tells of his encounter with a duky ter-j H ' vltor in one Huch club. H "What have you, ' the player had asked H. of the dark-, "in the fchape of.period- 1 icals?" H "Corn liquor, sub." was 'the immediate H v, reply of the attendant, "beer an' wine, H i t , - but mostly corn liquor, sub." H Hl' 7" MAN whose illness threatened to H' ' L develop into typhoid was taken to "l ' the hospital. Instead of rowing H " worso he improcd, and at the end of the H " fourth dn, when hw wife isited him, he H asked to bc tak-:i home, l "But you have paid for a week," replied Hh f iiis thrifty &poiibe. "They won't refund H J Him mono. 1'ou had letter stay your HL r week oUU" |