Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1918 — JESTS AND JINGLES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JESTS AND JINGLES

Partly Right. “I don’t like your heart action,” the doctor said, applying the stethoscope again. “You have had some trouble with angina pectoris.” “You’re partly right, doctor,” said the young man, sheepishly, “only that ain’t her name.” In the Dark.

“Your daughter, sir, has referred me to you.” “Well?” “Can X have her?” “I dunno. She hasn’t given me any instructions, yonng man.”

The Missing Link. Algernon (excitedly)—Oh, Miss Deering, half an hour ag<r I was just a minute too late to assist in rescuing a man from drowning! The crowd formed a human chain and — Alice (interrupting)—Yon were the missing link?

Dogs of War.

"Some of these war devices of the Prussians have proved clumsy.” “Yes. They were the sort of thing to be expected from a na-i tion that regarded a dachshund as a n improvement on a tegular dog.”

Easy Proposition. ‘•Whatever Induced her to marry 11MI man she did?” “I think the principal inducement was because he asked her to.” A Father's Disappointment. "That was a fine, letter Josh wrote home,” commented Mrs. CorntosseL "Every line of It was jes’ as grammatical as it could be.” "That’s what worries me,” replied her husband. “He has spoiled his style. I thought at first he was goto* to have a great future as one of these natural-born comical dialect writers.*