Show VATH A THE WITS fair question tin im not i lie ike same man as I 1 was ten years n anso 0 o I 1 who were you ten years agol ago fed up appleby have you read georgia simpletons Simple tons last book beachly I 1 hope so his hi reaction judge what did the eilicer do when you called him a lobster prisoner ile he pinched me great open spaces space what color bathing suit was she bhe wearing 1 I tell lier her back was turned life his hi long LODE suit father that young man know how to say good night daughter ill say bay he be does the symptoms symptom Is your wife a good cook oh yes ashes always threatening to leave me eay easy to tell why docs your cigar lighter work no I 1 won it at a bridge party chicago news no stable III mannered diner hey walterl waiter 1 walter dont serve it sir boston transcript soaked we got badly soaked camping Cam plug hey this was at a wayside hotel plenty of 0 time did mr smith give the bride away 1 no lie he let the bri bridegroom degro om find out fa for r himself stray stories bouncing back something back asked the poet 1 I fear so said his wife what Is it a poem or a check ten gauge D double 1616 and how was your father in law looking last time you saw him straight down the barrell barrel 1 return of the native the people who are objecting to the verb hike as an ugly americanism which has no business on this side of the atlantic are trying to prevent the return of a real english word to its native shores hike was used for centuries in the english provinces to express very much its present meaning and it was english emigrants to america who introduced it there many of our new words are like hike much older than we think admiral mark kerr recently rec recoiled ailed the interesting fact that the word gadget was used in the navy when he entered the service in 1877 aged wild goo booie 0 now how old may a wild goose goo become dr C S purdy collector of archeo logical relies relics displays a small stone t 0 arrowhead in a case in h his is drug drug store t 0 0 o at buckley midi mich the arrow point was recovered from the breast of a blue goose shot at buckeye lake ohio when doctor purdy was a boy the arrow Is of indian manufacture said doctor purdy since stone stolle weapons had not been in use for 50 or CO 00 years prior to the death of the goose it would seem that the bird was that old at least A hunter of my acquaintance brought it down with a shot shotgun gun de detroit free press domesticated hen june dixon of mount morris N Y has a pet bantam lien hen and the chicken has become so domesticated that it entered the house and laid an egg between two dolls in a carriage on the second floor of the dwelling no one knew the lien hen was in the house until it proclaimed the accomplishment with will a cackle her fatal error boss 1 I had to fire the secretary I 1 hired this morning assistant she have any experience peri ence boss none at all I 1 told her to sit down and she looked around for a chair bitter talk novelist carl van vechten was talking bitterly in greenwich village about the poor returns that novel writing brings in the only truly successful novelist he said bald Is the one who Is able to make a living at something else extravagant hope hop you must admit that your political antagonist uses good english he ought to replied senator sorghum his ideas are so slight that he doe sn t have to think about anything but the grammar A costly course coune she says she thinks she could learn to love me yet you dont look happy its going to be expensive nad had her out last evening and the first lesson cost me ines 18 the parlor trick All mistress stress I 1 thou thought glit you said tills this room was clean do you ever sweep under the carpets new mcw mald maid sure I 1 do maam ev er J |