Evening journal., 1908-01-14
Personal and Pertinent

Professor Ogden Chalmers Lorimer Toledo's veteran
educator. is OF the few remaining schoolmasters
who still cling to corporal punishment
Il believe In corporal punishment" he said soutly, in
a recent address. 4 take no stock in moral suasion
Good, healthy boys under moral suason have
a time of it. They get out of hand
There is n friend Of mine" said Professor Loriner
with grim smile, "who raising a family Of six boys
with the help OF moral suasion. The mild little chap
argued about the matter the other night at club.
And do you believe, said /, that moral suasion
is better than corporal punishment for big lusty boys
yes said my friend
For my part. sneered.
"'And do you to say that you have
AS 1 sit here, my friend declared earnestly
have struck Of children except in self
defence"
Senator Dubois, Of Idaho a bitter foe to Mormon
ism III Aurora, Ill, he said recently:
Mormonsm. with its attendant polygamy is, look
at it how you WILL bad thing hopeless thing as
bad and hopeless as the case Of Jacob Smithers"
Senator Dubois smiled
Jacob smithers criminal" he went on sat in his
cell making paper boxes when dear old lady looked
through the peephole in the door inquisitively.
"'You poor man. said the old lady, guess you'll
be glad when your time is up won't YOU?
wall, NOM not partckerly Jacob smthers an
swered. I'm in fur life"
H. H. wixon the Chicago aeronaut was talking the
other day about the perils of flying.
THE aeronaut," said Mr.. Wxon, would undergo no
pers were he not too hasty The poor man is so apt
10 undertake flight before his aeropane of his drigble
balloon in perfect order II he would but control his
patience he would be all right but he is too previous
like the Denver woman"
Mr.. MiXon gave a loud laugh.
There was you know" he said "a Denver widow
whose husband lay seriously, in fact hopeessy ILL.,
To the DOCTOR he downstairs from the sick
room one morning the woman cried:
Dear doctor, is there hope at all? Can nothing
more be done" And she wrung her hands piteously.
But the doctor with delighted smile replied;
q" Madam, take heart congratulate you. Our patient
has taken sudden decided better,
shall have him about again in few days.
"'Oh doctor, walled the lady in Mortified tones
you told me he could not possibly recover. and here
I've gone and sold all his clothes"
At a dinner in Hot Springs Va. the conversation
turned to card sharps, and Eben d. Jordan of Boston
said:
"A one-eyed man suspected of cheating a poker
game in the town Of Tin Can. He played and on.
till the chips stacked high the table before
him nearly 20 hide him from view. Finally he won
a huge Jackpot His eye cleaned he clawed
in three bushels Of blue chips and in the suen silence
a tall, lean player
THE tall lean player took his revolver from its hol-
ster, and Juggling it carelessly he said:
Gents, there's cheatin' goin here. amt the
kind OF gent TO name names, to make personal
illusions; but If this cheatn' amt stopped I'll shoot
his other eye cut an then he'll be blind"
rather cynical joke has been recently credited to
Senator Platt
The senator, his visit TO the Manhattan Beach
aires daughter, TO be presented him.
The little girl in the Of of her many
hghttul chats with the aged statesman, said;
isY"
Political economy. my child" Senator Platt re-
Piled us the art Of never buying votes than you
actually need"