Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1912 — GOOD JOKES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOOD JOKES

SUPERSTITION. “For downright idiotic, superstitious, weak-minded gullible credulity,” growled Jenkins, recommend me to a woman! Gave away a pair of my trousers to an old peddler to charm warts off the children’s hands! Madam, you are aware that this is the twentieth century and not the middle ages?” ■ ‘lt does seem a little silly," said Mrs. Jenkins, mildly, "but I’ve heard of such things being done. Top know those trousers, John, were the pair you tore on the lawn mower the other day and threw aside. "It’s not«the trousers, madam; it’s the childish, imbecile, fatuous, puerility of the thing. Besides, I left a hare’s foot in one of those pockets, madam, that I’ve been carrying for rheumatism the past three years.”*— -Tit-Bits. * - =-.rST.' ~