The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1916-02-17
Tales of the Town


other with about the same amount Of
feeling.
A farmer can accomplish as much
with baling wire as woman with
hair pin.
Nearly every poor man figures
casionally how generous he would be
if he had more money.
&
When man of 70 asks girl of II
to share his lot he should add, in par
enthesis, ain the cemetery"
Old Bill Misgivens: 81 have been
fool all my life, but I'd get sore if
some one should tell me So"
Rats in New York cost the ci4
91A million dollars year. 1t would
be almost as cheap to keep cat.
By the time you have removed ,
enough pins from the new shirt to t
make it safe, the party is half over. |
4 $
A horse hitched up with mule al 9
ways looks as if it were little I
ashamed although there are lot of /
5000 and $3.50 mules. i
4 4 I
A prisoner threw the magazines t
across his cell in disgust. "Nothing s
but continued Stories" he growled,
"and I'm to be hung next Tuesday" e
Z j.
His wife having embroidered all the b
towels in the house, even the bath O
towels, so exquisitely as to prohibit
family use, an Emmett man has had A
to resort to -four sacks T
q 4 Z n,
Every man who is just recovering A
from an attack of grip should he en- II
dowed with two noses-one to breathe tn
through and one to blow. Of course ar
if he wants to stick it into some one in
else's business he needs three. tn
tn
"A Curtain Blil VIII uldIllSu q idi hiNi
and moved out to the farm, full of en- N
plans for improving things Oh
on the place, the first morning skim on
med off the nasty scum that had gath
cred on the milk over night and threw h..
i into the slop bucket. ~
4 4 4
Mrs. Norah Mulvaney and Mrs.
Bridget Carr were wives of railroad
men. Says Norah to Bridget, who w.
rad in her arms her 18th child, ''How M
ire you Bridget, an there we are ou
yid another little Carr in yer arms" ie'
Another it is, Mrs. Mulvaney, "and oe
is me that's hoping It's the caboose."
= 4 & pc
It was a beautiful evening and Ole, bo
Who had screwed up courage to take wa
Nary for ride, was carried away Ole
" the magic of the night MARY"
le asked, twill you marry me?" wa
Yes, OLE" she answered softly. He cal
apsed into silence that at last be- gr'
anne painful to his fiancee. cole, to
He Sdlu ucSpeiatSiy, WHY uVh yVu "
ay something?" cay tank" Ole re- am
lied, "they bane too much said al en-
eady" he
A worried looking man down town bio
he other day was muttering over and mi
yer half aloud, "Taupe, reseda, pea eve
ut, tan, wistaria, tete de negre, sky, abb
iais, hello, peach, prunella, crow, low
anne" "Here! What is the mat gri
er with your" passerby demanded. |
Are you crazy?" "Not exactly" re- ow
lied the mutterer, "My wife sent me bun
, the store to ask what colors they wo
ad in silks and | am trying to re- thi
,ember to give her the information
,rrectly." nea
knS
We expect this to happen in bar Pot
lrber shaved man he spoke in this fish
anner: poor jim, poor Jiml Jim dru
orked in my shop, but | had to send fish
IN to an asylum, as he threatened to An,
u a CuSloluti lilTOhO ptOaQoS lhS the
lstomer refused shampoo. Some mu
mes | wish | had let him do it. kill
'ould you care for shampoo this he
orning?" Eyes" meekly said the law
an being shaved. the
Z day
The light of the mothers smile will on
Irvive our sun--the thrill of her kiss he'C
i'll last beyond the thrilling of stars; 1njt
e sweetness of her lullaby will en- wit
ire in the cradle songs of worlds yet and
levolved; the tenderness of her faith as
i'll quicken the fervor of prayers to the
made to the hosts of another heav- here
Ito the gods of time beyond Hue
me- And the nectar of her breasts afte
f..,l l r,