The Archive · 1938

Elk-Milker

A REFUGEE applied for a position as domestic servant, "Can you cook?" inquired the lady. "No." "Can you sew?" Again a shake of the head. "Can you do housework?" "No, very sorry."

"Well, what can you do?" With a smile the refugee proudly replied, "I can milk elks."

Heard in Court Woman: I had put my baby to bed, and I opened the window so the child could hear the man next door singing in his garden.

Solicitor: Why did you go into the public-house if you had no money?

Man: I thought there might be someone in there who had.

Solicitor: What gave you the impression your husband was spending his money on football coupons?

Woman: I saw him cleaning his football boots, 4

Senator Soaper Says—On Long Island, a sedan skidded 114 feet on its top with no injury to a lady passenger, proving the safety value of the new piled-up coiffure, The benefactor of mankind who disclosed that cigar ashes are good for a rug is in with another. Leaving the clipped. grass benefits the lawn, At Toronto, a store burglar takes only a ukulele and a pair of rubber boots, in case of a high tide at Waikiki.

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