Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1894 — OUR PLEASURE CLUB. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OUR PLEASURE CLUB.

A street car conductor knows whal the wild waves are saving when bt sees a woman wave her parasol. —Binghamton Republican. It is a fad for women to hang up a baby’s first shoe for an ornament, but we notice they quiL it after the babies begin to arrive in big lots. — Atchison Globe. Milliner —I don't see why you want any changes made in your bonnet; it is becoming, isn’t it? Lady- No. Milliner —What is the trouble? Ladv—lt makes my husband look terribly blue.

THE NEXT THING. Lire.

He —So you were never in love? She—No; but I've been -engaged > lots of men who were.

' DESPERATE. Trtith.

Raphael—Susanna, gaze on yonder deep declivity. Me sadder committed suicide dere t'ree years before I was born, and if yGU do not forsake de count and promise to be mine, I will t row meself down dem st<*ep roclls and end dis yere empty existence. “Goodluck has had his- salary raised; was it for extra work?” “Yes; he always listens when the proprietor tells his baby’s smart sayings.”

"Maud's husband must be very wealthy." “Why: does she spend a great deal?” “I don’t know, but she cleans her own gloves now.” “Here is a very valuable paper I want to put away where it will not be disturbed. What would you advise me tp do with it?" Airs. Wilton.—Why, address it to your mother and give it to your husband to mail. “Oh, Tommy, don’t you feel afraid to eat so much cake? Tommy—No; mamma said your cake was the kind that would kill a dog. “I wouldn’t care so much,” said Timmins, “if I hadn’t signed the thing." _ What’s the matter?” asked Sirr.mous. “Why, I wrote a bit of verse with i line in it calling passionately for a new ideal. The fool printer set it up as calling for a new deal.” —Indianapolis Journal.

Husband (triumphantly) lone it. I have played two games jf.rhess blindfolded. Wise —Well, I'd like to run out for half an hour. Suppose you mix the bread, mind the baby, stir the pudding, baste the roast, watch the veg?tables, and answer the doorbell for i while. You, needn't be blindfolded. The really successful man in this world is the man who always seems to take all the advice that everybody gives him, but who knows just when it is best not to follow it. “The little mermaids and merbovs sever have any snow under the X’pan. do they, mamma?” said Jacky. “No. dear." “I suppose instead of snowball ights they, have hsbball fights, eh,” laid Jacky.

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