Life — November 6, 1884 — page 13: what you’re looking at

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- LIFE: PNT SEIQSORS AvT ee ROM hand to mouth,” he gaily said, And pressed her dainty finger tips, Which salutation quickly led To one upon her perfect lips, As fair as roses in the South, “From hand to mouth.” So she was won, and so was he. "Twas something like a year ago, And now they both are one, you see, Although which one I hardly know, They ‘re living somewhere in the South From hand to mouth.—Xamébler, Harvard graduate. **Oh, it's importan! course, but it don’t amount to anything without good battin The Collegian, “WHAT two beautiful children! Are they twins old bachelor to an Austin lady with two children, they are twins,”-replied the lady.‘ Excuse my curiosity, am; but are you the mother of both of them ?"— Texas Siftings. A LITTLE boy who had been used to receive his elder brother's old toys and clothes recently remarked, ‘* Ma, shall I have to | marry his widow when he dies ?""— 7id- Bits, | ‘WHAT do you think of Fielding?” asked a Boston girl of a | | | tinued, ‘‘ allow me to offer a suggestion. 265 ‘*T see, dear, that you are getting along well with your house- hold duties,” said a young husband to his wife, holding up apiece of biscuit and looking at it critically, “Oh, goody,” she exclaimed. ‘*I am so glad you like the bis- | cuit, George.” “Yes,” he replied, “ you are getting along well ; but,” he con- Put some bar iron into your next batch of biscuits, I have a lingering suspicion, dear, that you used sheet iron this time, because you see I can break this biscuit easily over my knee. What the American home-made biscuit most needs is real solid iron—iron that you can depend npon, and the hotels will get all the trade, or men will begin to marry wooden tobacco signs.” She called him a horrid thing, and they never speak now unless there is company present.—Detroit Free Press. A PECULIAR ROOM. A Texas lady called at a drug store and said : **T want a tooth-brush, a real nice one. I want it for a spare room.” ‘That's the first time I ever heard of a spare room having teeth,” responded the smart Aleck of aclerk. “If your spare room is not bald headed, we can supply it with some good hair brushes, and if it is bald headed, we can sell you some hair re- | storer that will make the hair sprout out like spring bolts.” There was no sale,— Texas Siftings. 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