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Show JUST FOR FUN What Started It. "I saw forty or fifty mn etartloi; away on a Pledging trip this rnoru-iiu," rnoru-iiu," said tno man with a hfotfc flus'u ou his nose. "On a sledging trip?" AskM tho m&n with the wilted collar and tho dyspeptic shirt front. "Yes. Must have bvon at least ttf-y ttf-y of them." "Goh! Don't you envy them?" '"Not particularly." "You don't? Just Imaglno yourself your-self sledging across the frozen plMnu of Iaforador. or the Arctic wastes north of Hudson bay, or " "Oh, yon mlAnndrstsnd tno. Thoi. f.dlows were coins to drlv rlvta with sludge hammers on a new brlds oon In eGorgla." Ji required lour policemen to f-ei oidte them, and even then tho con-ipniantR con-ipniantR had to be taken away li plarato patrol wagons. Chicane Tost. Liked the Other Kind. It was In a "down East" villa co that the youug man rucl his sweetheart, sweet-heart, a charralog country beauty. hen h returned to tho city lie sent hr a Jar of cold cream to keep her i hecks as fresh as the budding rose. On his next visit bo asked how the had liked his UtMe gift. "The taste was very nice," sh" fald. with a rather sickly smite, "bul 1 think that 1 like the other kind of cream best, dear." Llpplncotfs. Willing to Oblige. A Woman's Christian Temperance I'nlon president was In Ronton, but did not caro to dlno In a hotel whrj liquor was sold. Finally she discovered discov-ered one which appeared to be on tbo cold water list. After she hat ber.ted herself at a table, however, to make sure, she asked the waiter In. a low tone, '"o they sell liquor here?" "No, madam," he replied, "hut wo can send out and get anything you want." Brooklyn Lile. From Missouri. An Instructor In physics In a Washington Wash-ington school was affording his pupil Borne knowledge touching the element oxygen. "Oxygen," said he, "Is essential to all animal existence; there could bj no Ufa without It,, and yet. strange to say it was discovered only a oen tury ago." "Then, sir." asked a student, "what r' Id they do before It was discovered?" discov-ered?" Brooklyn Life. A Correction. Tho habit of contradicting fonio-times fonio-times "o'crlcaps itself" unwittingly. "I've heard It said," remarked a lounger at the crossroads store, "that lohn Henderson over by Woodvlllu wan one of eighteen sons." "That's whar ye heerd wrong." contributed con-tributed the chronic kicker. "T'wan't John Henderson at all. 'Twas n brother o' hls'n." Lipplncott's. An Industry Threatened. "What you want to do is to havi that mud hole In tho road fixed," said tho visitor. "That goe to show," replied Farmer Farm-er Oarntosfiol, "how little you reformers re-formers understand local conditions. I'vo purty nigh paid off a mortgage with the money 1 made haulln' automobiles auto-mobiles out o' that mud holo." Washington Star. |
