THE CHINA MACIE
CABBAGES AND KINGS
Modern Arithmetic
10 mills = 1 cent.
10 mills-1 'cent.
10 dîmes-1` dollar.
10 dollars1 payment..
10 payments-1 vacuum clean- er, 1 radio, 1 fur coat, 1. washing. machine, 1 electric refrigerator, 1 set of hooks-and 4 autos.
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Economy
Mother: "With food prices so high, don't you think it a bit ex- travagant, Tommy, to eat both butter and jelly on your bread at the same time?”
Tommy: "Why so, mother? I think it's economy. You see the same piece of bread serves for both."Grit.
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Aha!
Sir Fletcher Norton was noted for his brusqueness. When pleading before Lord Mansfield 01 some question of manorial right, he chanced to say, “Me Lord, I can illustrate the point in an instant in my own person: I myself have two little manors-_35
The judge immediately inter- posed with one of his blandest smiles: "We all know it, Sir Fletcher."
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Aha!
do
**Jimmie, how
school?"
"Closed, Dad, closed.”
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Hm-m!
you like
"So this is where the newly-
weds live?"
"Yes ecstasy marks the spot.”
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Tragic
"Is that letter really so import- ant that it must be posted to- night?”.
"Well, wouldn't it be a dread- ful thing if Robert Taylor got no fan mail in the morning?"- Pearson's.
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Helpful
The maid, a keen radio fan, answered the telephone: "Madam will speak in one minute. In the meantime, I'll put on a gramo- phone record.”—Tit-Bits.
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Preparation
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Father: "Johnny, there's button of your coat. Go upstairs and sew it on.”
Little Johnny (in surprise): "Mother will sew it on, dad”
Father: "I know she will, but I want you to learn to sew.but- tons on yourself.”
Johnny looked amazed. "Why, dad?”
Father (solemnly): "Some day, Johnny, you will have a wife.”- Montreal Star.
PAGING
SHERLOCK HOLMES
Chicago.-Detective
James
McGurk of the Missing Persons Bureau has drawn one of the oddest assignments in Chicago police history.
He was detailed to find Sher- lock Holmes,
The absentee Sherlock is the beneficiary of an estate in Ripon, Wis., and his last known address was on the North Side. The re- quest came from G. W. Lambert, Cashier of the Ripon State Bank. Detective McGurk quipped he could do very well with the ser- vices of a Dr. Watson.
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