The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-06-21
HVMOR or TIE DAY

Gerald-rm dead in love with you.
Geraldine prefer a live nan.-Judge.
It is true that love usually flies out Of
the window when poverty knocks at the
lar terms and goes right in without knock
ing love IS sometimes surprised into stay
mg-Puck.
Little AMI Cwho has an inquiring mind
DO you pose, Uncle Bill, that q hen
and a wooden one2 90
Uncle Bill Bilderback-sartin she does.
AMI; Ye never heard of a hen layin'
wooden one, did ye?-Town Topics.
When zen a man starts to argue point with
He needs must diplomacy use.
II takes good part of his marital life
To find out Just what's the best ruse
10 make her admit that he's logical quite;
But he learns, If he lives with her long,
she sometimes can be eoaxed to admit he
But never to own she is wrong.
Exchange.
MP I'm .; afraid your children don't have
We'll I don't know They are allowed
10 yak IN the graveyard every sunday
He laughsth best. who. laugheth last.
The dog who chuclSles with his tail,
Houston Post.
The Landlady-YViIl you have coffee. tea
or cocoa, Mr.. Slopay?
Mr.. SlOpdy-Anything YOU wish to call
II, ma am!-Puck
Say. Say. ma, baby cut his teeth. didn't he2''
why can't he cut his hair. then9"-
BroWn1ng's Magazine
1T is too bad that BngEins wastes his
time writing poetry"
7 don't mind his wasting his own time
answered the severe man, but he has no
right to waste my time reading it aloud to
washington Star.
He.wnI you give me a place in your
ushe-Yes. if you can pay the rent.-rown
Topics.
Dabney--I can't read Mr.. Henry James
Impressions Of New. England at all
Sidney-Nor I; deplorabIe case of fatty
degeneration of 3angua ge.-BrookIyn Life
1T is said that no man in these days
can make a living out of poetry
I know one who does. He runs a print
ing ofrice and publishes books OF poetry
At the expense of the poets. Chicago
Gramercy-The GolightIys want to get in
to society. Do you think they will sue
Parke-WelI, they have made a good
start. They are already liviPg beyond their
means.-1OWn TOPICS.
He (moodiIy)-Ah, tell me truly. is there
anything that hasn't been said already on
the subject OF lover
She (softly)-ProbabIy not. But I'm
sure, very sure indeed, everything on the
subject hasn't been said to me.-Puck.
Tagging.
he can not seem to pay his bills
However he's inclined,
HIS wife keeps dressed right up-to-date
And this keeps him behind.
Houston Post.
IF you believe you would be happier
away from, your husband, why don't you
Because Tn afraid he'd be happier al
So Houston Post.
She-They say that every woman has a
secret sorrow. Do you believe it?
He-Well, she may have the sorrow all
right-but it's no secret.-Detroit Free
Press.
'Croaker seems to feel a great SYM
pathy for any one who Sc i'll
HUH His idea of sympathy is to get
some poor invalid in a corner and tell him
how nliserably he's looking. Philadelphia
Press.
IT'S a good thing for me" said Her
cules, that I was born thousands of years
1.Yes?" inquired Minerva, with a rising
"Yes. indeed. Instead of being asked to
clean out the Augean stables I might
have. been asked to clean out Philadel-
phia"
shuddering at the thought he rang for
Ganymede and took a nectar and soda
Town Topics.