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“You can’t appreciate the view you'll have until that sign lights up in the evening.” | NOW YOU TELL ONE NO CHANGE ‘The professor's wife was speaking. “I must say, James,” she said, “that you do not look so well-dressed as you used to.” “That's strange,” replied the pro- fessor, thoughtfully, “for they are the same clothes."—The Humorist. | BROAD VOCABULARY Mrs. Streatham-Smythe (staging Nier first reception: And, Mary. from seven to eight o'clock I want you to stand in the drawing-room and call the guests’ names as they arrive. Maid: I'll do my best, mum. 1! suppose just the first thing that comes into my head about ’em will do!—The Humorist. “George tells me he's working for all he’s worth just now,” said his fond aunt “Well, I suppose that’s his way of saying he’s only earning five dollars @ week,” returned his cynical uncle— Tit-Bits. MISSED THE POINT Elsie: I don’t love. Ronald any more. Last night I wanted to show him how well I could whistle and as| T pouted my lips to whistle— Molly: Well? Elsie: He let me whistle—Lustige Kolner Zeitung, Cologne. Angus—Old Tavish MacTavish got cut of paying the dentist $40 to take out his teeth. Sandy—How did he manage it? Angus—He picked a fight with him ‘and got ’em knocked out for nothing, —The Pathfinder. Cutajar—T understand your hens have stopped laying. © Chlupp—Yes, two of them have. Cutajar—What’s the reason? Chlupp— They had an auto acci- dent.—The Pathfinder. Victim—That young fellow who had the next chair was a fine barber. Why did you send him back to the barbers’ college? Head Barber—He had an impedi- ;ment in his speech, so I sent him back for a postgraduate course in ;conversation.—The Pathfinder. History Might Have Been Different f— R. C. O'Brien in Judge: Pau Revere had been held up by traffic. Caesar had recovered after having been put on the spot. Napoleon had had a plane and pilot for @ nonstop flight from 8t. 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