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‘En: u second-class mutter Juno :5. rats.
Lt the postomce at Chicago. Illinois, under act
of March I. 1873.
; Published Every Saturday
By W. D. BOYCE C0., CHICAGO, ILL
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GENTLE J]AIB$
Many a good cigar has met its match.
Poverty makes it easy to 1;... the sim-
ple lite. ’
One way to keep out of debt is to have
no credit.
Too often the hero worshlper is his
own here.
How the rest of us like to iind fault
with the rich.
Man likes to climb to the top by way
at the elevator.
Keep one eye on your enemies and two
on your friends.
A man with nothing to lose can afford
to take cha.nces.. . ,
Sana. nz,en;mistal;e anter for the
ouhtsin 01 youth.
Few men are able tovappreciate a good
Joke-on themselves. ' "
A cynic is a man who has'tried to
make good and failed.
A fcrriale lawyer doesn‘t mind being‘
the woman in the case.
Select a person with a hot temper it
You want a. warm friend.
Folks who are always looking for the
worst or it usually find it.
It's so much easier to be entertained
than it is to be entertaining. '
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Did you ever meet a self-made man
who was ashamed’ of his Job?
Sometimes single blessedness is
greater failure than marriage.
(I.
The man who believes in luck is very
likely to develop into a loafer.
Even in the goorl old summcr time one
encounters a lot or cheap slnttes.
Some girls are shy about marrying
men who are shy of ready money.
The older a man grows the -less wisdom
he discovers in hlmselr and others.
People suirerjng from the hives should
speak honeyed words-but they dont
it is human natilre to want the biggest
half-just as it there was such a thing.
You will rind many or llcaveifs sub-
urbs on earth it you care to look for
' them.
Many a. man has real money in his
pocket because he doesn't own an auto’-
mobile.
Nothing ever pleases his neighbors
more than to see 9. man get what he
deserves.
Every time R snlnster looks‘At a man
who has just boon led to the altar by ll.
ggidow ,slu;‘says to herself How. lensilyp
you poor men are fooled!"
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f lady
cl-'li<‘:‘A’co
‘i‘.El:5r:.En
PEPPE
One on Him.
On one occasion in his career Nat
Goodwin was humping‘ over the gasoline
circu as the star in a play
had that the only izood thing
the last curtain Naturally.
6VldEl’lCF'(l no desire to patronize it. Fi-
nally. however, the llnve actors and sc-
tresscs played in in town which. for somg
o
t was too rrood to be true. r the
:.rst act Goodwin sought out the stage
manager nncl said:
“On the level. are those renl people out
.,..
"Certainly. a whole lot of them.” W-
on me." replied Good-
0
“I thought that crowd was a paint-
ed drop curtain."
1
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A Close Buyer.
A New York theatrical man “a RP‘
pointed receiver tor ssmaii opera house
i an upstate town in New York. He
was anxious to sell it and so was willing
to take the first otter made.
no udvertisetl ,tne place. and after
waiting 8. week he was delighted when
an inquircx‘ came in.
"Say, mister," the prospect asked. “how
, much do you want for the the-:1ter’!"
“My friend," the receiver replied. "I am
extreme] anxious to ma. e ct sale. and
I'll let you have it for your own price."
“Please. mister." said the inquirer,
"can't you do a little better than that?”
First Stenog-“How do you like your
boss?" .
HEW’ ,
Second Stenog-“Great! Us don't
know no more about grammar, spellin',
an’ punctuation than I do; he’s jest out
‘er college
U’.
A Wise Child.
A certain liuttle Kiri in East Cleveland
has been ill tor some tirn so ter-
ribly ill, but enough so that she couldn't
go to school and had to stay in bed. and
got a great deal of petting and indul-
genes.
,The other day she said to her mother:
“Momma. I wan palm to buy me a dog.
Not a. little dog, but a. great big bull-
loc." .
"Well. dearie." smiled the mother.
“we'll have to see about that after :1
while. '
“No, I want it right now."
“Don't you think yould better wait till
you're well?" -
“No. momma. I rlon't. The sicker I am
the more likely papa will be to buy it for
m ..
3‘.
Not the Only One.
The ther of II. pupil in one or the
Plliladelphia schools had been helping her
small daughter with the arithmetic les-
son for the next day, and after strug-
gling through the problems s(-cured what
appeared to be satisfactory results. Next
day, when the little girl returned from
school. the mother usked with some’ curi-
. .
are your problems all correct. dear?"
momma, they were every one
replied the child. l
w repeated the amazed
m so sorry."
ma." said the little one.
consolincly. “you neodn't worry. All the
other little girls‘ mamrnas had them
wrong. too." '
.3 .
Unnecessary Noise.
young man and the girl were
standing outside the front door, having
tat after his evening call. He
was leaning against the doorpost, talk-
inir in low tones.
looked
father in the doorway. clad in R. dress.
inir sown. , V ‘
“Why. father, what in the world is
- the mutter?" she inquired. ..
,“J hn." said tht-.,ta.ther. addressing
himself to the young man, "you know 1
have never complained about your staY'
oing to ('Ol'i'lDlc'l.il’l
rest of the family get some sleep.
F.
Spoiled the Show.
There is E. good story or an actor who
was depicting on the board a powerful-
pathetic Dart
He was made up marvelously to look
starved to skin and bone. tottering on
the verse of death starvation.
breath and weak trom
emaciation.
Still. he had on his lingers H. flashing
diamond ring. and the sarcastic gallery
heavens! If this fails, what shallyl do?"
The answer floated unexpectcdlv from
ye ring!"
The act was spoiled.
K .
Preclicarnent of a Suffragist.
well-known university professor who
has-taken much interest in the woman
surtrage movement was persuaded to
carry a. bnnner in u. parade that was held
in New York some months ago.
iis wits observed him matching with a
5 banner so
that it hung limply on its standard. and
later she reproved him for not making a
better appearance.
"Why didn't you march lika somebody
and let people see your banner?" she
“My dear." meekly replied tire pro-
!essor. “did you see what was on the
banner? it read, ‘Any man can vote.
why can't 17'"
One or the Other.
One kid story leads on to another. A
Cleveland school-teacher tells an account
or B quiz conducted in her geography
class.
"In what zone do We live?" asked this
teacher.
“The , temp’:-ut zone
well-drilled class.
“Rig t. And what do we mean by
‘temperate’? Willie, you msykanswer."
"Temp'rut is Where it‘: trcezin‘ cold
halt the time an’ roastin‘ hot the other
half the time."
It W lie wasn't sent to the head for
that, it wasn't because he didn't deserve
- 1 .
‘ chanted Vthe
7.
Stopped Eating.
De Wolf Hopper, the actor, had a, slight
cold one night, and in :1 curtain speech
he referred to it in this lashion: '
"I went to my doctor." he said, “and
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