Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 January 1918 — HAVE A LAUGH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAVE A LAUGH

His Cup Runneth Over. The new chap carrying the mess was a polite lad. • “How’d you like your coffee?” he asks. Tommy gazed up amazed, and then quick as a trigger: “Over the top, mate. Over the top.” Knew She Was There.

“I see my wife is in that picture theater.” “You can’t see her through the walls, can you?” “No, but I recognize the baby carriage in the lobby.”

Medium. “What do you think about the charges against these factions?” “I don’t think any of them are as black as they’re painted.” “No, nor as pure as they’re whitewashed.” He Played Safe.' “She said if any man kissed her without warning she would have him arrested.” . “What did you do?” - “I warned her, of course.” Like the Country. your neighbor moved out West? Crimsonbeak —That’s what he’s done. « •’And has he paid his debts?” “No; he’s like the vicinity he’s living in—only sparsely settled.” •I At the Kennels.

"What are you going to do 1 ?" asked the fox terrier pup to the man with the knife. “Well, to make a long tall short,” replied the heartless wretch, here’s where I get busy.”

An Opposing Combination. , “I know a man who performed a dark deed vthich was also one of light.” "How was that?” “He was my deader who gave me a ton* of coal,” ' Logical Connection. The mother of a bright little tot had ordered whipped cream on her dessert, and the small maiden was much struck with the term. She turned it over in her wise little brain till its apparent meaning struck her. “Mamma,” said she suddenly, “is the whipped cream what comes from the naughty cows?"