Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1912 — GOOD JOKES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOOD JOKES

PRESENCE OF MIND. There are symptoms of panic in the theater. A big man in the front row arises. “Sit down!” he roars. “There is no danger! Sit down!” The stampeding audience stops, turns, and faces him. “Sit down!” he orders. The people obediently sit down. “I will go to the entrance and show you there is no danger whoever,” the big man says. He strolls along the aisle, reaches the exit, and rushes out. r itsi ; . “That’s what I call presence of mind,” he tells himself. “I never could have got out of there if I hadn’t stopped that panic.”