Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1918 — IT IS TO SMILE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

IT IS TO SMILE

' Her Complaint Doctor —Your daughter, madam, is suffering from constitutional inertia. The Girl—There, ma! And you’ve been saying I was simply lazy. * Wild Guess.

“Why do they refer tp a statesman as a solon?” “The word is derived from the dead languages.” answered the man who assumes to know everything, “and refers to a states man’s instinctive desire to get on a platform and do an oratorical solo.”

Where He Was. Angry Woman—My husband attempted to strike me. I want to have him arrested. Police Captain—All right. Where will we find him? Angry Woman —In the emergency hospital. Deference. “Do you think it is proper to use pro* sanity to a mule?” “So far as my own feelings are concerned,” declared the expert teamster, “it Is highly Improper. But when you are trying to get along with as sensitive and exacting an animal as a mule, you’ve simply got to humor him.” It Depends.

Mrs. Flatbush — What does your husband call your dog? Mrs. Benson-hubgt—-When he’s calling him in the house, do you mean, or chasing him out?

Information Limited. “Is this a bureau of information or is It not?” asked the caustic person. “It’s a bureau of information to a limited extent," replied the clerk. “We are not trying to tell anybody when the war will end.”