Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1918 — SIX SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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All Alike. “Savages will trade vast tracts of land for a string of beads.” “Well,” replied Miss Cayenne. "I know a man who wears evening clothes and carries a cane, and he did the same thing. He went broke trying to pay for a pearl necklace.” incredible Hardship,

“So your brother’s joined the army?” “Yes.” “How does he like it?” “Oh, the food is something awful. Why, he hasn’t had pie for breakfast once

since he left home.” A Good Reason. “Why don’t you accept him if he has offered to have his life Insured in your favor?” “Because if he was a good risk for the insurance company, he’d be a bad one for me.” Market Term Defined. “Pa, what’s *manipulation for a rise) mean?” “When I pull the bedclothes off you in the morning.” No Trouble.

The small boy stood at the garden gate and howled and howled. A passing old lady paused beside him. “What’s the matter, little man?” she asked in a kindly voice. “O-o-oh!” wailed the youngster, “Pa and ma won’t

take me to the pictures tonight!” “But don’t make such a noise,” said the dame, admonishing. “Do they ever take you when you cry like that?” “Sometimes they do, an’ sometimes they d-d-don’t,” bellowed the boy. “But it ain’t no trouble to yell I” . * The Correct Adjective. , “Don’t enff the lltle fellow, madam,” remonstrates a passerby. “Surely he has done nothing very bad, a sweet little child like that” “Sweet child is right” said the wrathful woman. “E’s been an’ swallowed our sugar ticket.”