Judge — December 22, 1923 — page 28: what you’re looking at

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An excited gentleman dashes into a store. An assistant inquires: you wish anything, sir?” “Yes, I have lost my wife!” “Mourning department on first floor!”—Kasper (Stockholm). nh ill wi yey Husband—My wages have been reduced ten per cent.! Wife—Only ten per cent.? per cent.!—Pasquino (Turin). That’s all right. “Do I" was outside the works gate—they were having their final “draw” befor: the horn went off for them to start toil again. ‘Man, Sam,” said one of the workers, me chaps are born to misfortune. Did hear oor Jock’s in the hospi “Naw, whit’s the maitter wi queried Sam. “He got a lickin’ the fellow thocht he w his girl, an’ y him?” a chap becans s too chummy wi’ whin he explained he'd worked beside her for nearly twenty years in the same mill, she fired in an’ nearly murdered him."—Weekly Tele- graph (London). Pala A Butsxor-Jorc E plays golf so badly £\ that he prefers a’ solitary round with only the caddie present. He had a new boy one day recently, and played as wretchedly as usual. “T fancy I play the worst game in the world,” he confessed to the caddie. “Oh, I wouldn't say that, sir,” was the consoling reply. “From what the boys were saying about another gentleman who plays here, he must be worse than you ar “What's his name?” hopefully. And the caddie replied: ‘*Arbuthnot- Joyce.”—Pearson’s Weekly (London). eee asked the player amining plaintiff)— air when he prom- <d to marry you perfectly serious or one y and jocularity? Plaintiff—If you ple: all ruffled with running it—London Answers. tae Cannibal Chief —What is your occupa- tion? Captive—A critic. “Compare what you have done to others with what we shall do. to you!”"— Der Brummer (Berlin). ir, “is ’air was ‘ands through The milliners have reduced their prices by twenty Xr You'l If; lms Yo by pa ni comicbooks.com