Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1917 — SOME SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SOME SMILES

No Chance. “He says he’s.the head of his house." “No chance for him to get away with that!’’ “Why not?” “I saw him and his wife out riding together the other day, and she was driving thS automobile.” • The Last of It “Well, at last I've got rid of that awful "BooE"you S!lid >' oa wouldn't have in the house.” “Did you burn it?” “No. I loaned it to a fAend." * * * Fatal to Wasters.

First Potato Bug —Think we stand any chance this summer? Second Potato Bug —No, we will be up against paris green and the red, white and blue.

Moderate. • “Does your wife belong to all the afternoon clubs?” “Not all of them. She thinks six afternoon clubs per week Is aboutenough.” * * * Can't Dispute It “I don’t understand baseball,” complained" Mrs. Flubdub. “It’s a mixedgame.” “What’s mixed about it?” “They appear to think just as much of the man who steals a base as the man who earns a run.” » » • Not an Unusual. “Is Bl 1 ggi ns an author!ty on milltary matters?” “Yes. He never had any war experience himself. But he feels perfectly confident he would have avoided the mistakes of every great general mentioned In history.” * • • A Friend of Her Youth. Mrs. Lookyoung—For mercy sake, don’t _put me near old Millyuns! Hostess—Why not? He’s awfully Interesting. Mrs. Lookyoung —I know it, but I never sit near him at dinner but that he bhirts out'something like, “You remember back in the old Civil war days.” Natural Aptitude.

VThis farmerette . idea seems taking with the girls.” * “Well, naturally they, would take to any science of husbandry.’

His “A state's attorney is a man who knows what he is about, isn’t he?” “Of course, he is expected to be a man with convictions,” _