Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1919 — Just a Little Smile [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Just a Little Smile

His Wife’s Fault

“Tills man says you owe him money, Sam," said the judge. “Dot’s right. Judge, I does." “Well, why don’t you pay him?" “Why, I hain’t got nothin' to pay him wlv, Judge." “Well, why haven’t you?" “To tell the hones’ truf, judge, I 'spects my wife has -felled down on de Job!"

A Suggestion.

The Officer —Here, you said yon were .a painter and could rig up some camouflage to hold the enemy back. What have you done? The Private —I’ve made one of the best signs I ever pairHed. It reads ‘No Trespassing’ in four different languages."

Paying for

Two political candidates were discussing the coming local election. "What did the audience say when you tol<l them you had never paid a dollar for a vote?” queried one. “A few cheered, but the majority, seemed to lose Interest,” returned the other. —The Line Gauge.

All in His Tongue.

A southern Indiana lawyer has made many patriotic speeches during the last few months. His tongue, like the men of that famous state across the Ohio liver, has been almost silvery, and his followers have been many. But his stenographer, who knows him from real life- better than from his speeches, has merely kept still and smiled when people have boasted of his patriotism. When the fourth Liberty loan bonds were offered for sale he bought one — one of the SSO denomination. The people who'had praised his patriotism now looked grieved. But the little stenographer still smiled. “Oh, I know him as of old,” she told her mother that night. “I learned long ago that his, patriotism was.like his religion—in his tongue and not in his hands or pockets.”