Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1912-06-27

THE SOCIAL HOUR.
A Football Dilemma.

to begin in the great match Of the soa-
son with a rival team. Just before the
game WAS timed to begin. the captain
"f the home team appeared with a w0r-
iied look and dejectedly counted tho
spectators. They consisted Of two
farmer boys. X mtlitiaman, and the To-
sal chimney sweep. He counted thsm
over twice, but failed To make any
more: of them. AS both teams took the
neid the home captain exclaimed:
There won't be no match today, We
scratch"
"W"t are you talkin' about," said
the opposition captain. You can't
scratch now"
We've got ter" replied the home
captain. dolefully; we amt took
enough gate money to git the ball oat
% W
No Wonder Brown Declined.
Stantslaus v. Henkels, Philadelphta's
authority OH books and autographs, was
describing the Governor Pennypacker
library.
Suddenly he paused and laughed.
THAT was AN error" he said. III
SUCH an error Ar that got into print, I
would feel us uncomfortable NJ the law
yer's wife.
"Thts lawyers wife lived uptown. ana
one evening her husband brought q
friend home with him TO dinner.
" There ts only one bottle of wine.'
the lawyers wife whispered to him in
the hall. That's n glass around. Don't
ask Brown To have more. He might
accept. and then where would we hep
Very we'll. dear said the lawyer.
"Rut AT dinner he asked Brown again
and again To have more wine. Brown.
though. refused steadily and firmly. A
dozen times he WAS urged to drink. A
dozen times he declined with great L.
termination.
james, what allied you at dinner?'
cried the wife, as soon as Brown was
gone. Didn't l tell you there WAS only
one bottle of wine. Why did you insist
so or MIR. Browns having more wine,
more wine. more wine"
My DEAR said the lawyer, L forgot
entirely
His wife frowned impatiently.
But what did you suppose 1 WAS
kicking you under the table fOr?' she
sked.
THE lawyer, puzzled, answered.:
Nj dear. you didn't kick me-"
Tough.
DIR. L.. Il. Taylor, the Brooklyn clergy
man whose sermons are now trans
united to invalid and deaf parishioners
by telephone, has AN apt way of bring
ing out x point with an anecdote.
Al il mems meeting he said recently:
Fathers ought to consider their chill
dren and look out for them more than
they do. Men. d" you always see to
IL that each little mouth gets all tho
steak IL wants?
over I'm Brooklyn the other day q
hoy entered a butchers and said:
Gimme Il pound % steak or
round-and let 1T be good and tough
The butcher was amused. He
laughed.
What do you want 1T tough forY
he asked.
Cause il it's tender said the boy.
father eats ii all up himself. but il It's
tough. us children gets n whaclS at it,"
UP in 4 Balloon.
or Baldwin, the ill-fat.d a%eronaut. a
cleveland man said recently:
He once took ms with him a-bal-
looming. The experience was odd and
frightening. A gale came up. ana I
became airsick-a condition worse than
SeaSickness.
1T was now necessary 10 descend.
but Baldwin wanted to know In what
part Of the country we floated.
With our glasses we swept the
landscape, but In the failing light only
one house was visible. and nearby q
man work e in a field
Baldwin, with great skill. brought
down the balloo: till 1T WAS only about
a hundred feet above the mans head.
Ill., he shouted, 'hi..'
The workman looked up IN amazo-
1nent.
AZ" y ~ bS&ANAW HI @0
we darted onward.
Where are YEP repeated the man
in his SLOW, dun way.
Yes Where are we?
Why came the reply, almost in
audible, we were now 40 far past
why. yer up in a balloon. hain't yey's
They Did Not Know Il.
From Talent.
] watched "A wee bit of a tuppenny one
ring circus parade this morning in st.
Paul. and about one-half of the citizens Of
this sanity city kept me company.
If | had Mr.. Andrew Carnegie's money I
would stop opening libraries for a little
whit" and appropriate a whole lot Of mon
ey to keep the free circus parades going.
Thereby hangs this tale. 1t WAS In .
sweet little, neat little. complete little Vir-
gtnsa town, years and years ago. The old
time road circus was due to show on Nom
day. and was expected to arrive Sunday
morning.
And very early Sunday morning every
hoy in town wac up and out, and had
joined III. endless procession that walked
for "A mile or so out the pike to meet tho
show.
hut the long morning moved OIL, and tho
show came not.
And the people who were driving I'm to
church answered the many Inquiries by
NO. we amt seen the show. Spect they
hays gone into camp some place until to-
morrow" So about dinner time the boys
gave M hope. and gathered around h
family board.
The afternoon Sunday school was popu-
lar with all the young folks. 1t was a
. good live school with plenty 20 singtn'"
and not much .'talkey talk"
The young superintendent was xratiicd
to see all the boys present. and he had 20
tell them 40.