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  2. This is WHERE WE SMILE

    Summer Visitor: "Do you know anyone who has a guitar around here?" Old Inhabitant: "No; but I have the asthma." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 450 words
  3. Advertising

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    Advertising : 884 words
  4. LITTLE SOVIET.

    My friends and I have fast started a little soviet of our own, (writes Stephen Leacock in an American paper.) We got our opportunity to begin owing ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,250 words
  5. Advertising

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    Advertising : 421 words
  6. WIRELESSED.

    There was a young lady who said, "The 'trousers' I'll wear when I'm wed." But I'm sorry to say ...

    Article : 35 words
  7. NO DANGER.

    An eminent professor in bacteriology has declared that kissing is not a poisonous pastime. He scouts the idea that osulation is dangerous. "Two healthy ...

    Article : 342 words
  8. IN THE SMOKER.

    Two golf fiends--an Englishman and a Scot--were playing a round together. After the first hole the Englishman asked, "How many did you take?" ...

    Article : 83 words
  9. LANGUAGE TO FIT.

    An ornithologist states that birds have accents according to the part of the country they are found in. The remarks of a Billingsgate ...

    Article : 51 words
  10. A CURIOUS REASON.

    Nancy, aged seven, is lunching with her mother in a restaurant. Mother (helping herself to sauce): "You won't like this, dear, it's parsley ...

    Article : 96 words
  11. SOUND.

    Young Man: "I want a word of advice." Mr. Wader (grimly): "Well?" "What is the best way to approach ...

    Article : 53 words
  12. SARCASM.

    A very spout man mounted the scales and dropped a penny in the slog. After a furious clanking and rattling the pointer finally came to rest not far ...

    Article : 77 words
  13. THE DIFFERENCE.

    Not all these so-called brokers are alike. Some make you broke. Some make you broker. ...

    Article : 19 words
  14. A BRITISH HOPE.

    Sir Thomas Lipton is challenging for the America's Cup in 1925. There is some hope by that time it may not be quite so dry. ...

    Article : 32 words
  15. SERVED HIM RIGHT.

    The train was just off, and Jeannie was congratulating herself on the prospect of having a compartment to herself, when a smartly dressed man rushed ...

    Article : 169 words
  16. MILD BUT SUGGESTIVE.

    The more than usual lack of intelligence among the students that morning had got under the professor's skin. "Class is dismissed," he said ...

    Article : 38 words
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    Mrs. Smith: "Funny, Bridget, this top won't shut any more." The Help: "But, ma'am, was it shut when you opened it?" ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 22 words
  18. FAUX PAS.

    We hear that there has been serious trouble at a certain seaside boardhouse. A foolhardy visitor had the temerity to cut a slice off the ...

    Article : 34 words
  19. SPONGE.

    Mrs. Newlywed (tearfully, after complaints about sponge cake): "It's that chemist's fault--he must have given me the wrong kind of sponges!" ...

    Article : 31 words
  20. TURN ABOUT.

    A taxi-driver recently got the worst of a wordy bout. An old man with a wheelbarrow wouldn't get out of the way, and the ...

    Article : 51 words
  21. A BARGAIN.

    He (rapturously): "You accept me. Then it's a bargain?" She (calmly): "Certainly: I shouldn't have considered it if it wasn't." ...

    Article : 31 words
  22. ALSO RAN.

    They were bookmakers with very little capital. They had lost heavily over a certain race, and were forced to suspend payment. When their clients ...

    Article : 71 words
  23. BEWARE!

    A lecturer was delivering an address. He had held forth prosily for nearly an hour, apparently without getting anywhere. At length he stopped, and ...

    Article : 54 words
  24. TWO BIG MEN.

    For a while the big man watched the little man fish in silence. Then he asked. "Any luck?" ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 130 words
  25. TRAGIC.

    Two navvies met each other in the street. "Hallo, Bill!" began the first. "You're looking very white about the gills this ...

    Article : 111 words
  26. SHOCKING.

    There was an old man of Cape Race, Whose brain was a perfect disgrace; He thought that Corelli Lived long before Shelley ...

    Article : 32 words
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