Judge — December 8, 1923 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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STORIES TO TELL [ovoroise a Since, young sladies, roomed. together. kind to each other in most things, but Johnette was usually the better dresser. ‘They we going to different Christmas E arties, as it happened. “May I borrow your silk stockings to wear to-night?” Prize Haroldine as DY had given Harriet a new dime, “Certainly,” replied Johnette. nade early announcement of “Tl get them for you. her intention to invest it in ice cream soda. “Don't go to that “But, Harriet.” asked the aninister, trouble, please,” re- who chanced to be calling at the time, sponded Har ( oe “why don’t you give your dime to the have them on. ns? They v JUDGE pays tted for this pr vehly for the beat story sub 135 for the second best rates. Original, unpus are wanted. We and she Vell.” said Harriet, “I thought about that. but [think PH buy the ice cream da and let the druggist give the dime o the missions.” your other wives that you cannot live with them 4 +; that you can only have one di that they (the others) wee must go their way: that’ you ean no WV ites the State of Oklahoma was first longer be the nee ny of them but 7 6 0’ : Union i 907 th 1e Se ed by you, Fee ee ene eae tote "When the judge had finidhed tho Tnilian ue resided on the territory which had looked up and said slowly and-deliber- up the Indian Territory living in #tely, “You tell ‘em. wy. One middle-aged Indian bi was said to have six wives. The officials of the newly formed State that they must break up the practice of the Indians having more than one wife, but they did not want to deal harshly with them from the first. So the man having six wives was ordered brought into the district. court) to) be reprimanded aia instructed. He was brought b " the court and the judge on the bench said to him: “The sheriff tells me that you have six wives. It is my duty to inform vou that this ‘is against the law. It is feyong: any] sou onunol be pert tet te Vell didn't intend to;* sui the eus- woing to punish you now, but you must tomer, coldly, “but yours is the only shop vo back to your home and select the one in this neighborhood where I can get wife that vou wish to have for your what IT want. You see, I am going to permanont and only wife. You must tell, pot some plants and T need sand.” m1 poly sot Tree is an old gentleman in Washing- ton who has, he thinks, detected his grocer in some shady practices. Not long © he went to the grocery, gave the leged delinquent a piece of his mind, id stamped out, with this “You're a swindler, and PI n your shop again!” The next day, however, he came back and bought five pounds of sug “Why.” observed the grocer, smiling in a forgiving way, “I thought you were +r going to enter this shop again.” Horace,1 dont know “J Be what 15 ailing & the children Hm! Guess neg this evening It's e'll have Lo ge { 9 past thew” ‘ doctor— we] Jong pe and they the Fan | bed tume he'll give © sumply will net v bo some castor 0. to b or someting The night before Christmas. PHYSICIAN tells a story of a youngster A of his own whom an overstrenuous vacation put on the sick list... The father had a prescription filled, and left. the bottle with the child’s mother. As she was very forgetful, he gave her a chart, and suggested that she set down the hours: when the medicine should be given, checking each dose as it was taken. Upon returning, he found the chart blank, “Why. Marie.” he exclaimed, “surely you ha ailed to. give Willie his medicine “Oh, no. [did not miss a single time,” his wife assured him. “How did you remember without the chart? ie smiled. “That was easy. [just told Willie this morning at what hours he was to have it, and half an hour before each time he would begin bawling that he wouldn't take it.” “ Civin War veteran had spent a week ZR at a New York hotel. When he went to pay his bill, the clerk asked: “What was your rank?” “T was a pri was the reply. “I won't charge vou anything. You are the first private T have ever met.” sot Raves had taken Mandy to the zoo. Mandy didn’t) know much about animals and Rastus thought he knew ‘em all, He showed her the camels, the giraffes and so on. ‘Then they came to the zebra and Rastus was baffled. He had never seen the one of stripes. “What am dat?” Mandy asked Rastus was equal to the que you silly gal, your animal sadly ni ed. Dat ain't nothing else but a sport model jackass.” “Why. has been tot I ToMAPPENED in a Baltimore market. “What.” said a woman customer of one dealer. is the price of these chickens “4 dollar and a quarter apiece, ma’am,” replied the dealer. “Did you raise them yourself?” asked the lady. “Oh, yes, ma'am, They was only a dollar ten last week,” was the reply. comicbooks.com