The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-03-09
Tales of the Town

e A little hot air won't do any harm
1 if you have some real business to mis-
! with it.
A woman hates to have her husband
gamble, but she doesn't mind it SO
. much when he wins.
We know an old optimist who says
he enjoys the itch because it makes
scratching such pleasure.
e & &
The stork it is a pretty bird,
And it both sings and flies,
And though it cannot read word,
1t adds and multiplies.
1t is not known exactly what the
word "Selah" in the Bible means, but
{ it sounds like one version of "D'je
gitme?"
We shudder to contemplate the pre-
dicament of the girl who is called
upon to flag a train with her petticoat
this year.
If you should break down and con-
fess to your wife how really little
goes on in the lodge she probably
would not believe you.
A great leader is a man who can
take two women out to dinner and
keep the conversation off of new
spring clothes and surgical operations
What has become of the old fash
toned sport who said he once saw a
'league" baseball game and the ball
never touched the ground for nine inn
ings?
Why should we in Idaho worry even
if quinine has gone up $50 per cent.
Quinine is not needed in Idaho, and if
it were, there is nothing in the state
fit to take it with.
1t is rumored that certain young
nan is engaged, and in confirmation .
If the rumor it is whispered that he {
has three joints of Stove pipe and
rocking chair in his hope box. l
MARY" said the sick man to his !
wife, when the doctor had pronounced /
t case of smallpox, "if any of my |
,reditors call, tell them that l am +
1t last in a position to give them
Large checks will be popular this S
rear, the fashion men say. They al a
Ways have been popular with the fash b
on editor in this office, as long as they t
ire coming his way. Small checks are h
rot objected to, either. il
4 4 Z n
No use trying to bluff a prospective
motor car buyer with the bogy of cost o
V gasoline. As was the case with all
he rest of us, he believes the machine o
he has in mind will run just as far on h
gallon of oil as the advertisement G
avs it will. n
--s--
Times have changed. When we were Il
boy we simply said eyes, SIR and :
went to bed when father :
aid, cts bed time" But when the
hildren are told to go to bed now :
hey say, Forget it, dad" and they "
ont go to bed until they are ready. :
"There is no set price in dollars and ;,
ents on ticket to heaven" remarked !,
I'D Bill Misgivens the other day Il
nee knew a poor washerwoman who h
OF one and she only gave 10 cents f,
eek on the preachers salary 1t was n
err tenth in cash, but she gave for p
lnes in goodness" D
81 am an expert only in one thing, s.
ightmare, confesses Old Bill Misgiv- lo
ms. 81 beat my own record the other IL
light | dreamed l was married to
'r. Anna Shaw, that Jane Adams tt
'as suing me for breach of promise o.
nd that the Saturday Evening Post W
-as printing my foolish love letters" CT
& & fl
An Emmett woman returning from -
ne east, who was on Pullman, said ~
bout a. M, just as the passengers -
vere getting ready to leave their ~
erths, baby began to cry Justify.
ust then the porter stuck his head in IL
he door and cried; "First call for k
reakfast" Then everybody laughed. W