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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 81 words
  3. AGONY.

    How true it is that many a life's tragedy is revealed in a two-line advertisement in the agony columns of the newspapers! Take this, for instance ...

    Article : 99 words
  4. NIL DESPERANDUM.

    The Melancholy Widow: "And if your husband was to die, would you pray for 'im?" The Sprightly Matron: "Oh, I ...

    Article : 35 words
  5. THE CULT OF SHAKESPEARE.

    Friend (to theatrical manager, who has just returned from a tour in the United States)—"I hear that you tried Julius Caesar on the wild and woolly ...

    Article : 129 words
  6. HUMOUR.

    A correspondent tells of a conversation heard at a breakfast table between a mother and a small child. The mother in question was reprimanding her ...

    Article : 73 words
  7. NOT IN THE WAY SHE MEANT.

    "It would please me very much, Miss Stout," said Mr, Mugley, "if you would go to the theatre with me this evening." ...

    Article : 52 words
  8. POSSIBLY.

    A suffragette lecturer recently brought down the house with the following argument:- "I have no vote, but my groom has. ...

    Article : 65 words
  9. HE EXPLAINS.

    "What am oratory, Brudder Jackson?" "Brudder Simmons, I will elucidate. If you says black am white, dat am ...

    Article : 54 words
  10. A BOOMERANG.

    "Mother doesn't want her little boy to be bad, it makes the ugly wrinkles come into mother's forehead." "You must have been drefful bad, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 34 words
  11. THE OTHER SIDE.

    They were chatting in a club smoking-room about a friend and his motor. "He seems to be very well satisfied with it," remarked one. ...

    Article : 60 words
  12. NOT IN CHURCH.

    It was his custom to point his sermons with either "Dearly-beloved brethren," or "Now, my brothers." One day a lady member of his congregation ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 65 words
  13. A QUESTION FOR GRANDPA.

    "Were you in the Ark with Noah, grandpapa?" "No, my child, I was not in the Ark with Noah." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 32 words
  14. INGENIOUS.

    Mrs. Artless: The Bloughbys have a g[?]andfather's clock that's been in the family for more than one hundred and fifty years. ...

    Article : 72 words
  15. A CURIOSITY.

    "Mother's compliments," said a youngster to a butcher who kept & shop in a busy suburban thoroughfare, "and she's sent me to show you the big-bone ...

    Article : 100 words
  16. A DOUBTFUL COMPLIMENT.

    A Scottish minister had been away on a holiday, and on his return asked the sexton how all had gone in his absence. ...

    Article : 67 words
  17. THE NOVELIST'S HENS.

    During the first year a novelist-farmer discovered that all his little chickens, which were confined in coops, were languishing at the point of death. The ...

    Article : 131 words
  18. A PARDONABLE MISTAKE.

    In an American newspaper office one of the best reporters on the paper died, and his death was greatly mourned by the editorial staff. A visitor to the ...

    Article : 128 words
  19. AN OBEDIENT HUSBAND.

    He held his elbows pressed close to his sides, his open hands were stretched out straight in front of him, and he was regarding them intently. ...

    Article : 322 words
  20. JUSTICE ALL ROUND.

    The workings of justice as recorded by Major E. C. Johnson in his "Track of the Crescent" were a trifle erratic. An Englishman was travelling in a wild ...

    Article : 232 words
  21. MARK TWAIN'S HUMOUR.

    Mr. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain), at a dinner by the Pilgrims to Mr. Whitelaw Reid, the American Ambassador to England, described the hearty ...

    Article : 376 words
  22. A DOUBLE DESCENT.

    Tramp: "Pity a poor man[?] miss. [?] was once 'igh up in the world, but 'as been brought down to where I am now." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 61 words
  23. HIS STANDARD OF MERTT.

    The Vicaress: "John, I would like to see you at early service; it doesn't last long!" The Village Ancient: "Lor', mum, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 44 words
  24. A LAUDABLE WISH.

    "It is right to have a certain amount of ambition," said the school-teacher, loftily, to a class of boys. "Every selfrespecting boy and man should aim at a ...

    Article : 124 words
  25. THE REAL BONANZA.

    A certain congressman has had disastrous experience in gold-mining speculations. One day a number of colleagues were discussing the subject of ...

    Article : 64 words
  26. THE ONLY WAY.

    Liveryman (to applicant for a job): Ever, had any experience with horses? Applicant: Of course. Liveryman: On which side of a horse ...

    Article : 43 words
  27. INEXPERIENCED.

    Jephson: I suppose you must have lost some of your patients by being on the Continent for so many months. The Young Doctor: Yes, confound ...

    Article : 36 words
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