Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 305, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1917 — GOOD JOLES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GOOD JOLES

Strategy.

Lady —I like the house very much, but I hear that It is haunted. Landlord My dear madam, I attend to that personally. The ghosts only appear to tenants who do not pay their rent and refuse to move out.

She Was Troubled. Mrs. A. —Are you troubled much in your neighborhood,,with borrowing? Mrs. T.—Yes; a good deal. My neighbors never seem to have a thing I want Advantageous Marriage. Mrs. Jlggs—So your daughter married a surgeon? Mrs. Noggess—Yes; I’m so glad. At last I can afford to have appendicitis. Hereditary Instinct Hoarder —Madam, I am told your father was a railroad official. Landlady—So he was. What of it? 7 Boarder—Nothing, only It accounts for your tendency to keep cutting down the fare.

' Mutual Complaints. “My husband accuses me of extravagance. I spent SIO,OOO last year.” “I ‘wouldn’t mind being scolded on that basis. I have to stand for the same accusation on S2O a week.** The Quicker the Better. Hack—l suppose you always let your wife have the last word. Peck —Yes, and I’m tickled to death when she gets to it. Disappointed.

“What did you get out of that will case?” asked the first lawyer. “A hundred and fifty thousand dollars,” replied the second lawyer“Good round sum, eh?” “Yes, but I thought the old man left more than that.”

Up-to-the-Minute. “Is Mabel still devoted to that young man who owns the 12-cy Under car?” / • ' “No. She passed him up for as army aviator."