Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1920 — SOME SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

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Wonder. “Tom Jove long rambles tn the country?” asked the impudent girl. “Yes, Indeed,” responded the young man tn the great hat with the purple band and buckled shoes. “When I go 'out in the country all nature.•qpms -JbwMip.* 7/5 \ I don’t blaT« ber. Ifk a wonder she don't Isggh outright I” u Bure , “Tea. dlr, it’s pretty hard collecting money just now; I know It” *fiHave you tried and failed?” -Oh, no!*’ . -How, then, do you know that money Is hard to collect T’ -Beennee several people have tried to collect some from ma” —Tit-Blta. J Just Dropped Off. Pedestrian (to motorcyclist who la looking bewildered at his machine)— Lost anything, sir? Motorist —Yes. . Pedestrian—What is it? Motorist—My girt—London Telegraph. Safety First Nervous Passenger (In aerial taxi)— W-w-what are you 1-1-laughing aL driver? Driver —I’m just laughing at the superintendent About this time he'll be searching for me all over the lunatic asylum.—Life. Quite Different “My wife Is making it hot for m» because I won't give her the pin_ money she wants.” ——• "Well, don’t be mean abeut it Give her the pin money.” “But It la money for a diamond pin she wants.” A Necessity In Some Cases. “Would you advise a man to become Interested In politics?” “With all the women taking part In politics,” rejoined Senator Sorghum, “I don’t see how It would be possible to keep any right-minded man from becoming Interested.”

/X DIFFERENT NOW Goldbag: I never had much taste for mathematics when I was a boy. Glltedge: But you managed to do some great calculating Ih a business way. .. * Goldbsg: That’s different. It’s wonderful what an Interest you can give to a row of figures by putting a dollar mark tn front of them. , T The Soap Box. Ao orators direct mankind Alons the paths of human hope. The box asserts itself, we find, - As more important than the soap. Endless Enterprise. “I suppose you will be relieved when campaigning is over." “Campaigning,” rejoined Senator Sorghum, “is never over. As soon as one campaign is finished it is time to start on the next.” - An Easy Process. “I hear that somebody has invented a process for gathering nuts." “That process is as old as the hills. An you have to do 18 to announce a meeting of some fool fad and the nuts; will gather themselves.” ' Sufficient M r >^iggs—Cook has only broken, or /dish today, dear. Mr. Wiggs—That’s better. How didthat happen? ♦ Mrs. Wiggs—lt was the last one. — Pearson’s Weekly. • Admiration. “Ton seem very attentive to that soap-box orator.” «m,” replied the man who worries about fuel. “He is standing' on the makings of a fine bunch of kindling wood." Want ads tn Ute Democrat are । read by more people In Jasper aw surrounding counties than those ap* peering th any other newspaper tn this county. ’