Cusine a lady's hat the other day certain windy corner reminded a correspondent of the short-sighted man who once chased his hat along a country road and up a narrow Jane into a back garden.
"What do you think you're doing?" asked an irate housewife, "Y'm trying to recover my hat," explained the short-sighted man, "Well, go and look for your hat elsewhere, That's my black ben you're chasing!"
Misquote Last year the Columbia programme committee invited Dr. Angell of Yale as a speaker at one of the weelly chapels, He travelled down [from New Haven entirely without a text for his speech. He got off at Grand Central, and was still unprepared. He took a taxienb to the Heights and stil had no idea of what he would say. Walking up the chapel steps he quite suddenly saw a sign on the door: "push." That would be his topic, he would speak about the value of aggressiveness in lite, of gentle force in the world, Upon the platform he began to speak: "The text for my speech is not drawn from the Bible, or from any great philosophy; rather from sign on the chapel door naming the chief asset that a person may have." His entire audience [twisted their heads and saw inscribed on that chapel door the word: "pull"
Leave Me Out "what do you mean by the Public?" asked the judge of counsel inva High Court case Counsel: "You and 1, muud:" The Judges doubt it"
The Public—who wre they, Those dumb and stolid Masses Of whom the cynics say, "The Public are such asses? There's Smith we call a Jay, And Brown a vulgar cuss The Publie—who are they? Why, anyone but us!
The follies of mankind That philosophers be labour We always try 10 find In Jones, our next-door neighbour, For each of us thinks he
The Public are sich asses!
vd that is Why, YOU Sed, other men surpasses,
—Yorich in the "Sunday Chronicle "Florwer Frame"
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a certain organization, some repairs had be carried out. A junior clerk wat. given the task to apply for the necessary credits, and that Is. how he tried to discharge himself of his duties:
Purpose: Materials and Iabors for repairs 10 a flower frame, Amount Applied for: $9482, Recommendation:
ise Yo the Weather-beaten action coupled with the decayed condition by long. ages, the former frame thet stand offering an excallient foliage to house dwellers in. summer time has now crane Died down, "To effect a repair to the said frame ses, nak -mean any malta, a proper IRealtful "to "ofelat" housesdwellers" in. view. of Sppearance of the owned properties but Wi sanitation. AS the submitted estimate being found in order, T strongly recommend Tt for NEMThe "flower-frame" was a small per-
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