The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-05-02
You are late. madam"

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You are late madam
IOu said H.
Eyes, madam; but Yesterday
My! how stupid, Did it matter?"
ut always matters with me, madam '
Il am sorry. l beg your pardon"
1t is granted. madam. Slip this Off,
please"
1.-The waist frst?"
''Oh, certainly. There. Erect, please"
How is that?'
Better Emile, the pins"
I'm sorry, now, you didn't let me
have the other material. This looks
Tut, madam. This will be perfect
when 1T is completed"
lyon must allow me to be the judge,
madam. Your elbow, please"
The sleeve seems AWKWARD
You do not know. Wait"
Can / stand that so tight around my
neck?''
Certainly, madam. Tt is necessary -
Il am afraid that color---'
Madam, you do not know. / am the
Judge"
I think | am about to faint"
How dare you, madam? Don't you
see that | am in a hurry ?''-The Smart
Set
We waiting, Abdul Haniid for that
hundred thousand s.
But we shall not keep on waiting, till the
crack of doom. not we
We are mighty fond OF Turkey, but the way
we like it best
Is when roasted to a finish, after It's been
killed and dressed.
1t is commonly sufficient TO the wise to say
word,
And to keep on dunning, Abdul, would be
needlesSly absurd
SO just ask your secretary if he'll write us
out 4 check,
Or you'll wake some Summer morning TO re-
ceive it in the neck. ---Oregonian.
curious point is made with regard
20 the inspiration which prompted the
writing Of L'Aiglon'' NJ Rostand saws
that the idea of placing the Duke of
Relchstadt on the stage was suggested
to him by picture of Sir Thomas Law
the age of II or Il, draped in the folds
of a long mantle and standing in rocky
and mountainous landscape He was
struck, he adds. by the infinite dreami-
ness and melancholy in the face. Accord
ing to the London Academy, which has
been investigating the matter, Sir Thorn
as never painted any portrait of the kind.
He did paint the prince in mantle, but
he did not make him in the least melan-
choly, but chubby and cheerful, and did
not put him in rocky landscape. He
did, however, paint a portrait of a total
~ different boy-Master Lambton-
which exactly answers NJ Rostand's de-
scription, cloak, rocks, landscape, melan-
choly and all and the inference is that
the French poet has ''enthuscd'' over the
wrong person, or, at all events. has
mixed them up rather badly. 1t only
shows the power Of imagination.
Mrs. Girgle-"Roger?"
Girgle-"Well?"
Mrs. Girgle-"S Something tells me I
may die before / wake"
Glrgle-"Oh, go to eep"-Harlem
he was dying from the effects of smok-
ing too many campaign cigars
10 those who wept at his bedside. he
argued in lofty .rit of philosophy that
death was inevitable
When you give man rope enough
he exclaimed, This doom Is at once
sealed. My fate, if it shows ANYTHING
in particular, simply shows that he has
not necessarily to hang himselfn'-De-
trOit Journal.
An amusing story is going the rounds
of some English coal districts with ref
erence to enlisting in South Africa. saws
D London correspondent. A grandson of
President Kruger, who resides in Eng
land, is said to have been in communica-
lion with Pretoria and received a cable:
More ships arriving. Are any men left
in Manchester" Young Kruger went to
Manchester and cabled back: Regret
Manchester is full" A second cable
came from Pretoria: 'Stil more ships
arriving. What about Leeds? The re-