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A Page of Comics, Sketches and Stories BEE 1S FARING FoRTH: Wa IG GOING IN QUEST OF FRAGRANT BLOSSOMS AY COME. FROM, DAS SWEDISH WAR OFPRE an’ AY GOT VON IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR. Ma. AxeL! Stow Him ff No THir. Here) WuTH JuTH TWo TOYS COMING ALONG AY BANE AXEL Gimme DAs Paver } Willie’s Tact. HERE was company to dinner and father was carving bis prettiest on & fine roi ly the knife struck a 8I & alidin tion and came top. Father attempted to cov Feal feelings with jests, but there an embarrassing silence. Willie 'pok advantage of it. Cook has burned her nose, orful," sald. foo had,” muttered father, still ag with the roast. “How did to pull those skewers out teeth."—People's Home — i Vs. Praying. iB fa one deserving of notice: for reading the paper, exclaimed: “I see Mre. Smith has «@ little daughter.” “How do you know that?" asked the child, “I read it in the paper.” “Read it to me.” The mother read: “Born—On Mareh —, to Mr, and Mra, Smith, a daughter.” The child thought a moment, then said: “1 know what I am going to +? , August: 10.- i 1914, AN THe Boy COMING THitd IVAN BOWowsiyY WHAT ITH Yours MISS MARY, NAUGHT Ih waTURES BOWER, EXUDES MORE FRAGRANCE THAN THIS GH yu up Wins ops FLOWER AN 1 Counpn'T GET ovT FROM TS eTWEeN THeM Some mistaxe.! You SEE - AY BANE VUN FRENCHMAN Mf SABA BALA AA BAA LSA AAALAAA AAR BABB WS There’ll Be No Cruel Shots Fired In Mrs. Mudridge-Smith’s Invasion AAD SAAAAAAAALAAAKAABALAAABSAAAARAAL By Royvk:MeCardell: Jarr, “Anyway, in the words of the! lieve that story about the Swiss poet, ‘You should worry.’” mremy Wes feck rvening Won) - R. JARR, meeting the boss as they entered the office in the morning, solicttously inquired as to the health of his employer. “| feel fairly well,” replied the boss, “put other than that, Mr. Jarr, “everything ts going to periltion!” ‘The boss didn’t eay perdition. He uged the shorter and ugher word for | the saree place. “Oh, things wit! pick up,” eald Mr, Jarr, with all the cheerful optimism of a man who will get none of the | pickings, “I doubt it, slr, I doubt it!” re- | marked the boss gloomily, ‘Every | day matters get worse, everything is at a standstill! And, by the way, do you remember reading in the news- Papers the other day that the women of Switzerland desired to be armed to resist the invadere in case there were any invaders?” “Yoo, I read it,” replied Mr. Jarr, “and I also read in the papers that 6,000 Americans in Paris desire to en- at in the French army and wear uni- forma like the French soldiers wore do, Iam going to quit praying and | who accompanied Lafayette to Amer- begin advertising.”—Little Rock Ga- zette, Even That. ica to fight for our liberty during the Revolutionary war. And I take it that both bite of information are con- atructed of same quality of fosh.” nesota has much of the wit of | surprise: FR oesota, baw me 2 NYE of Min-| “Of what, sir?” asked the boss in his lamented brother, Bill Nya, * ie . ank, flapdoodie!” ‘s the Washington Star. Himself] explained Mr. Representative Nye sald at & lawyer's banquet in Minneapolis: “Lawyers have grand reputations A lad women, I tell you the women these to believe that story of the Swiss) “Of course I should worry, Mr. | days will do anything!” women wanting to be armed.” Jerr." retorted the boss. “Do you “The suffragettes in London are “The Swiss women don’t wish to be| think I would be sitting here dis-| doing nothing, however,” remarked soldiers; they wish to be sailors and] cussing war rumors with you if I/ Mr. Jarr, “I think you'll find that 4 Mr.| were not worrying? Mr. Jarr, I be-/ the ladies of Switzerland are no more anxious than the lad! to carry guns along 41 be shot at by tired German farm Jaborers dressed in heavy colored clothing fastened with brass but- tons.” ‘Mr. Jarr, do not jest on so serious subject,” remarked his emplo; king his voice to a whisper, tell you the women these days are foolial id headstrong enough to do Did you know that my sharpshooter?” aer forge My. Jarr. ‘ells me she is going out dancing, but I know better. I heard ur wife—she was sitting near me in the subway and did not note my Presence—I heard your wife tell an- other lady—Mre, Rangle, I think it was—that my wife was a sharp- sheoter and was practising all the “What can I do, Mr. Jarr?—my wife young and headstrong. I know peak to her it will have no effect! I remember when I first met her ‘Was taking part in a church en- tertainment and posed in the tableaux | Yivants as ‘Cigarette, the Dau, ae — — Bia re gH =o kno f ; ; ; ‘a's book ‘Under Two Flags.’ AST ODS “You, |there was a. terrible row 5S BECAL about it because she held a cigarette : had a amall brandy ” at wel strapped to her uniform waist. AIN'T i NO cubed cigarette > \ ways infatu THING ‘fel to war!" Mr, Jarr calleé up hie wife right away. Healey’s servant, was cele! ed for his ready wit. O: while he was serving at dinner "I got thi keep your calf from Boston Transcript. I'M GOIN’ IN. AN’ THAT BUM PIANIST Feet is see | PEST: teh “T take it to Father/ and he tella me Forthwith Capt —_— The Correct Time, ROF. TURNER had been apend- ing the Christmae vacation in Egypt to supervise the erection of a telescope at Helouan. of the in- found that 6 watchmaker and asked him how checked the error of the wateh. rrect time from the gun,” said that simple craftsman. 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