The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-09-06

ing soulfully into his eyes, there are
only three duplicates"
Great - he gasped. 81 was
figuring on t,;enty at least to sell.
How shall we get through the year,"
Then they both realized, as never
before, that marriage is a lottery.
Boston Herald,
The Other Way.
- would kiss you if | had the
cheek to do it,, said bashful young
man TO his sweetheart.
whats the matter with your lips:'
queried she. Detroit Free Press
Force OF Habit.
Hix Old Bilby used to take his wife
Il diamond SOLITAIRE every time he went
out for a night of it with the boys.
MiX-What does he do nov that she is
in the country for the summer?
Hix He takes it to his typewriter.
AZ Sea Cliff.
Maud Are you practising any econo-
my this summer?
Marie Oh, yes: am wearing all my
last years balloon sleeves for bicycle
boomers.
At Narrngansett.
| Papa 1t seems to me that the more
| YOU pay for your clothes the less you
get for your money.
Mariel admit that it appears so;
but, you see, the goods we save from
the upper half of our opera gowns and
the lower half of our bathing suits we
put into our balloon sleeves.
At a recent boarding school examina-
ton for girls one of the tasks was an
essay on boys and this was one of the
compositions, just as it was handed in
bv a girl of twelve: 1.-The boy is not
an animal, yet they can be heard to
considerable distance. When boy
holers he opens his big mouth like frogs,
| but girls hold their tongue till they are
spoke to, and then they answer respect
able and tell just how it was. \ boy
thinks himself clever because he can
wade where it is deep, but God made
the dry land for every living thing ana
rested on the seventh day. When the
boy grows up he is called a husband,
and then stops wading and stays out
nights, but the grew up girl is a widow
and keeps house. - Bombay Gazette.
Papa, buy me a European prince.
said the daughter Of one of America $
trust kings to her father. Il can do
| it now. my daughter was the reply.
TT have To buy two or three Leglsla-
| lures for my own use. '-Harpess Ba-
gar.
] An Afterthonght He-l neve- saw
anything like this tide. Here Eve been
pulling steadily for ten minutes, and
we don't seem to have moved foot.
She after pause oh, Mr. F.. Stro-
ker. I've Just thought of something
the anchor fell overheard while ago,
and | forgot to tell you. Do YOU
suppose it could have caught on SOME
thing Truth.
Its all right, Mary" he said pa
tiently. Go into politics and run for
office if you want to. But remember
one thing. the cartoonists II be after
! you as soon as you're a candidate.
/ don't care. - And they'll put your pict-
ure in the paper with your hair out OF
curl and your hat on crooked. DO
! YOU think they would do that: she
/ inquired apprehcnsively OF course.
+ And they'll make your Paris gowns
look like ten-cent calico and say that
your sealskin coat is imitation.
/" William" she said, after "A thought
ful pause, guess I'll just stay here
and make home happy. y Washington
( Star.
/ The Rev. Mr.. Drowsie-" BY the
4 way. | observed on Sunday last that
YOU got up suddenly and left the
/ church before my sermon was over.
was deeply panied, and hope you can
offer some explanation.
Theological Student oh, yes. sir !;
ever since was boy | have been a
somnambulist.