The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1919-02-13
TALES OF TOWN
WHEN you COME BACK

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We've left them 50 you'll find them
there,
When you come back,
We know they need you over there;
we're proud to have you CO.
But pa and | are lonesome here, and
oh. we miss you sol
But sunny days are just beyond when
ever clouds hang back,
And oh. twill be happy day
When you come back.
The house is full Of emptiness, a sort
Of waiting strain,
As If the old rooms held their breath
till you get back again.
Your old dog droops about the yard
he sadly feels the lack
But how he'll joyous bound and bark |
When you come back.
What, we would like to know, is the
difference between dress and
frock?
Clothes do not make the man. Take
the clothes off Old Bill Misgivens and
what would have you left?
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Friends are like an umbrella when
the storm comes you do not look to see
whether the handle is DIAN or fancy.
We don't take much stock in this
grounding business, but just the same
il looks as II the old fellow knew what
he was talking about.
The boys must get awfully tired of !
the war after the war is over. 1t is +
like sitting all night in the bleachers :
after the game is over. =
Wen be so dry, wen be so dry in
this here country by and by that those
who used TO guzzle il will have to :
prime themselves to spit. .
or the 1904 women who tainted last !"
year, statistics tell us, 1891 fell into
the arms Of men; two fell on the II
floor and the other into kitchen sink e'
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To. have appendicitis man only u
has to have the time and the price, Il
put a woman has 60 have at least do
lozen hand-embroidered silk night s'
gowns as we'll m
Germany probably feels like a fell
ow on the operating table, waiting W
or the surgeons in an adjoining room h'
o decide whether they shall unjoint yC
lin at the neck or the hips pc
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A returned soldier says that when an
e got to Alsace-L Lorraine he couldn't on
ee anything about the country worth lie
ghting for, but when he drank some
I the wine he saw what made them pc
ght. he
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Another reason why human nature ioI
I human nature is, man can lose an
80 in jackpot and never whimper, IN
ut just let his tax bin be raised no
1850 above last year and he feels wo
Ike wrecking the whole scheme of civ
ization. ,,l
&c ~.
he soldier who learns, when from
France he returns, w"
That girl has his job, shouldn't fro
harry her: Yo
. should just let her stay pulling wi,
down the good pay, 90,
And in due course of time he should o"'
marry her.
am
A young woman was telling her .
mpanion that she was on her way rem
have tooth pulled out. "Going cri,
have gas ?" asked the companion. {
should think so" replied the af- ebo
eted one. "You don't get me sitting ma
the dark with no dentist" Int,
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st ahead in the theater the other :,
sht, MS he sat reading the paper,
nat an epidemic of itch is sweeping IL.
anee." "Yes," replied his compan- "a
!. BY the way, didn't you send tho
me old clothes over to France" :.
TO- said the other hastily. "My him
'"a' went 70 belgium dis
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When goose lays an egg she just
ddles off as il she were ashamed
'ause II is a goose egg. When Inst
4 lays an egg she calls heaven and
til 10 witness il. The hen is
.ural born advertiser. Hence the E
nand for hen eggs exceeds the de- Emr
nd for goose eggs and the hen has NV
the business she can attend to. ~,
Stew
Japanese student thus accounts SEl
his absence from school, "Hou- ia
Sir; Having been amputated Mar
m my family for several months, arg
AS | have complaints Of the alb Wit
zen, coupled with CONGREGATIONS of of il
intervals, with entire prostration ia
n ali desire to work. beg to be ex- Star