Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 192, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1918 — JUST TO SMILE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JUST TO SMILE

A Change of Linen. Husband —You have changed washerwomen, I see. Wise —Yes. How’do you know? Husband —Instead of getting Brown’® and Robinson’s shirts, I am getting some strange garments I never wore before. ' A Vital Question. She— Yes, I attended cooking school and I learned so much there. • He —Did you learn how to keep a cook? ui Not Customary.

Alice —How did you feel while Fred was proposing to you? Mildred Two or three times I felt like supplying the words I knew he was groping i for; but, of course,

that wouldn’t have been the thing to do at all.

Tact. She —When you go to ask papa the first tiling he will do will be to accuse you of seeking my hand merely to become his son-in-law. He—Yes, And then —?,” She—And then you must agree with him, He’s a lot prouder of himself than he is of me. Achieving the Impossible.

Traveller (a t door) —Madam, I have a vacuum cleaner. It — Mistress (loftily! t- Sorry, but we always send our vacuums out to be cleaned.

Courtesy. The diner who had Cleverly taken another man’s overcoat had just reached the door when the owner tapped him on the shoulder. “Pardon me, sir,” he said meekly, “but would you allow me to get another cigar from my coat pocket, in case I do not meet you again?"