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Show PERIS COPIN THE WORLD I with Our Office Boy. INVENTION? A country road, A farmhouse near, A tishing part, Too much nearbeer. They're homeward bound In a big machine. They're hungry too. And no "long green." A wayward hen Struts In the road, Then races away From the boist'rous load. One fisherman in A famished thought Grabs a fl6hnet, The hen Is caught. But one is not Enough, they say, So driving slow Along the way, Another farmhouse Looms in sight. The net it works. The idea's right. And now the farmers Along the pike Keep their chickens Out of sight. The easy way is sure to bring the worst results. There's one automobile whose price won't Jump on account of the steel strike and its made of tin. D'Annunzio's poems were never as popular with the Italians and the Ital J lan government as his actions Butter prices have jumped seven! cents on account of the British rail road stilke. The prohibitionist cry has ever been "Abolish the poison" aud now that we have prohibition the death rate from drink is greater than ever. There's much sympathy with the milliners who struck In New York recently re-cently among married men We are im lined lo believe lhat Lcn-Ine Lcn-Ine and Trotzky were born In Washington, Wash-ington, went to kindergarten in Boston and attended school in Omaha and Montgomery, Ala THE MEANEST MAN IS Is he who will pick a straphanger's pocket. The fellow who bet $7 against 171 ; shares in a gold mine that Cincinnati would win the first game of the w k I world's series still has his $7. Yes, ind there's pot-holes and dan-igerous dan-igerous crossings in Easy street. There's no car so high priced out 'that It wakes you up when It is pui in I your neighbor's garage at 3 30 a m. Mexican law provides for no closed season for American aviators. SUFFICIENT! "Did any one comment on the way you handled your new car'" "One man made a brief remark, 'Fifty dollar and costs ' New York Globe. CONVENIENT? RATHER' New York William Goldman and. his bride held their wedding reception, in Goldman's barber shop and the meat hocks arue in handy to hang the wedding presents on Aud speaking of butchers James j Gerson of Cleveland iold the police he felt deeply cut to discover the thief who entered his butcher shop sliced off eight pounds of meat. Most girls are not half as thin as their sweethearts' excuses for beinr late- There's some truth in th contention that the movies influence won hps fashions. At least they're getting filmier. "The most dangerous man 1 know of la the parlor Bolshevist who doesn't work and doesn't know anything about working people, but who preaches uis- cord and creates unrest and unhappi- II ness" says a senator from Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania . J i I ,f! The wealing of the iron (cross) will never be as popular as the Wearing of the Green. I We presume the senator refers tc profiteers as w 11 as pa i lor BoI-ip Jj vists. M I It's one thing to mean what you saj and say what you mean and another tc get up before an audience and do it. Wt Many Hah caught with a marnac landed in a divorce cou.t. fl I's an ill wjnd that blows no on good - Nebraska and Alabama are now In a class with Georgia. JS . - ! i |
