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  2. This is WHERE WE SMILE

    Author: "I had a delightful time last night." Producer: "What v' do?" "Oh, I had some friends out to the house and I read them the play." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 616 words
  3. WORTH THE MONEY

    A great many "systems of memory," are now being placed upon the market, and these systems, I am delighted to find (writes Stephen Lencock), involve ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,269 words
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    Advertising : 467 words
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    Advertising : 718 words
  6. WIT ON TOMBSTONES

    A vast amount of wit is to be gathered from tombstones; mortuary puns have long been famous. The epitaph of the witty divine, Dr. Thomas Fuller, ...

    Article : 389 words
  7. WIRELESSED.

    "I think grammar's easy, mother. I know all about singular and plural" "Do you, dear? That's very clever. Perhaps you can tell me the plural of ...

    Article : 38 words
  8. IN THE SMOKER.

    The Man (gloomily): "I was told, to go abroad at once." The Girl: "Nonsense! Those doctors mustn't frighten you out of your ...

    Article : 47 words
  9. THE DAGO.

    "Daddy, what is a Dago? "A Dago my son is a term used by British sailors to denote some member of a Southern European ...

    Article : 67 words
  10. SPECIAL FUND.

    A well-known speaker lectured to the members of a literary society, and at the end of his address the secretary approached him with a cheque. ...

    Article : 84 words
  11. THE LOVE CYCLE.

    He: "Are you coming over to my house to live, or have I got to clout you over the head with this rock?" She: "I'll go, if you'll kill my ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 237 words
  12. HER BEST FRIENDS.

    Marjoris, aged six, shocked her mother by picking up the saucer in which she had had her strawberries and cream and licking it vigorously ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 105 words
  13. WELL, WELL.

    Jones was nothing if not gallant, but he always said the wrong thing. Mrs. Brown, who was exactly the same age as her husband, but would ...

    Article : 89 words
  14. NATURALLY.

    It was raining cats and dogs, and Smith stepped into a shop to avoid getting wet. Noticing, a counter of umbrella, he decided to buy a cheap one ...

    Article : 93 words
  15. THE REAL REASON.

    Tommy had sprained his wrist and didn't want to go t school. "But your wrist is nicely bandaged," urged, his mother. "It won't prevent ...

    Article : 91 words
  16. INSULTING.

    Brown: "I've just met a man who said I looked like you." Jones: "What blithering idiot was it? I'll knock him down!" ...

    Article : 36 words
  17. ACCOUNTED FOR IT.

    "What does this mean, sir?" said the boss to the man coming in half an hour late. "It was on account of the awful fog ...

    Article : 97 words
  18. KEERING FATHER AMUSED.

    "Are you sure the course is clear!" she whispered, sliding down to the arms of her lover. "Yes," he replied. "I succeeded ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 76 words
  19. DANGEROUS.'

    A certain clergyman was preaching in a remote rural pariah church. His sermon was punctuated by the noisy crowing of a cock in a near-by ...

    Article : 85 words
  20. WHAT DO THEY SCRUB?

    "Guess my girl in college has changed here mind about baseball. She is evidently going in for something more useful," ...

    Article : 43 words
  21. THAT GRAND STRUCTURE.

    English Clergyman: "And when you arrive in London, my dear lady, don't fall to see St. Paul's and Westminster Abbey." ...

    Article : 54 words
  22. THE LATEST VERSION.

    A man, we are told, left legacies to his three friends--an Englishman, an Irishman, and a Scotsman--on condition that each of them should put £5 ...

    Article : 92 words
  23. L'HOMME GALANT.

    A Frenchman was courting an English girl. Her mother said, mischievously, "Now, monsieur, if my daughter ...

    Article : 50 words
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