Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1919 — PITH AND POINT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PITH AND POINT

What Folks Might Say. 'Tm not In the least disappointed about you, Mrs. Naylor. Everybody told me that you were a regular busybody.” “Go on, you old hippopotamus 1 Can’t you see you are blocking the entrance for 1,000,000,000 people besides me?” “I like your story first rate, Scribbler. The plot is rotten and the style would shame a high-school pupil, but otherwise it’s all right.” “Tommy, you may go home and tell your mother I slapped you because you are a regular little nuisance whose parents don’t know how to bring up a child.*’ Try It First Mother —How do you get Harold to wash hiswrists? Second Mother —Oh, I bought him a wrist w’atch and he can’t afford to look to see what time it is and then show his dirty wrists. t—— An Inspiration Recognized.

“What is your opinion of government ownership?” “Its possibilities are brilliant,” replied 7 Senator Sorghum; “I think that in the near future it is going to prove one of our most brilliant topics of conversation.”

Done on Purpose. “That man always manages to say the wrong thing.” “L. have noticed it,” replied Miss Cayenne. “He seems to, realize that it is the only way for him to be suspected of having an original thought.” Venom. /

Edith—Are you going to return Jack’s ring? Marie (who has just broken her engagement) I haven’t decided. I suppose he’ll propose to you now, and I thought I’d just hand it over to you to save bother.

Snappy. She —I haven’t been able to get a copy of your book. He —Perhaps you didn’t try the right places. She —I went to abook store. Where should I have tried, at a junk shop?