The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1896-10-29

way ono LOOK it'''IuChN 10 70 H'io"oa
That
UNMISTAKABIR DEVOTION.
"Do you love me-"
Haven't | told you your bloomers are
becoming"
WITH THE SUMNER GIRLS.
Edith know it is said to be so, but
there are lots of men -
Meg-For goo'lness sake. where:'
A long RIDE.
Miss Leftover-Yes, | am very fond of
the wheel have ridden a half-century.
MIR. Gettitrong-Realy didn't know
they had been invented that long.
FUTILE SEARCH.
"Bacherly, why don't you find some
good woman and form a matrimonial
alliance"
"What want in that line is a silent
partner. and I've been seeking in vain for
the last ten years."
HIS ONLY WISH
Young Gushington-Mr. Grimmer, |
love your daughter devotedly, madly! l
cannot live without her. /
Old Grimmer-Oh, all right. All l
ask of you is not to stay and die in the
house.
WHY SHE TOOK 1T.
My dear" said Mr., Darley, 'did you
take any money out of my waistcoat
pocket"
II did," replied she, defantly.
why did you?"
because that is one of married
women's vested rights"
"People who live in glass houses." BE-
gan Mrs. Tibbetts
People who live in glass shouses,"
interrupted Mr.. Tibbetts. in mans dog.
matte way, should pull down the
blinds"
HIS EXACT CONDITION.
Tourist (in Okahoma}-I understand
that Polecat Pete barely escaped from the
mob last night
Akali Ike-Wal, not exactly barely
he had about half coat of tar an feathers
on when he got away.
ANOTHER SIMILARITY.
He-As near as | can get at it, the
general idea of heaven seems to be place
where it is always summer.
She Yes, and the proportion of men
to women will be about as it is at most
of the summer resorts Am right?
NEW TO THEM.
'There is joke in your paper this
week that | heard at variety show two
seasons ago." said the disa sreeabIe man
What if there isl" said the publisher
| of the religious weekly. "Our subscrib-
| ers never 60 to variety shows"
THE WAY SHE TOOK 1T.
Mrs. Lovey (proudly)-Yes, Mr.. Lovey
| and have been married for twenty-five
years. And we have yet 10 make up our
| first real quarrel.
Miss Pert-Isn't that rather long time
| to sulk?
LUCKY TO BE ALLOWED THAT.
"Pa," said little Johnny, "what's a
matrimonial bureau?'
"Oh," replied pa, 81 guess it mus be
one in which the husband is allowed to
put things only in one corner of the top
| drawer"
| TIE BICYCLES REToRT.
'You may talk about your superiority
all you please said the horse to the
bicycle; but you can't 60 unless some
body rides you"
True retorted the machine; 'but
you never got the girls to wearing bloom
ers nor did you originate the New
Woman did all that"
| GOOD REASON.
Little Johnnie Chatfie has the habit of
waking up every night and demanding
something to eat At last bis mother
said to him:
Look here, Johnnie, | never want you
eat anything in the night"
"Well. don't think I'd care much to
eat anything either in the night if kept
my teeth in d mug of water"
ONE ON JENNIE.
Fannie-"Where is your whce?"
Jennie-''I loane | it to Dudley Cane
sucker"
Fannie-"Oh, yes; Dudely did write
me to go out with him this afternoon fol
spin; mustn't keep him waiting"
HIS LOCATION.
Able Editor (Hawville Clarion)-Did
the jury find the prisoner guilty or not
guilty:
Texas Ike Neither
''f1ow was that hung iury?'
"Nope; hung prisoner. When they
got through deliberatn' they found him
hangin' by the neck from the windmill
back of the jail. We'd got tired waitin
for EN- to git to focus"
GETTING RID OF THE GAS.
Torker Long "a bore)-I tell you, fel
lows, that tooth was terror. The den
tist says. % me, he says: Now, Mr.. Long
you've got lots or nerve, and can stano
pain as we'll as the next one, but you'll
have to nhale gas for this TOOTH" Ant
l took the gas. Yes. sir. after consider
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