Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1919-12-26
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8HOOIO Do MOus
It was scrubby little room "a
scrubby little hotel. In q scrubby little
mart of a scrubby little ctty's scruburbs,
and the Picadilly traveller didn't ap-
prove at all.
when he went to wash ne found that
there was no water for the basin, no
soap to wash with, and no towel to dry
himself with.
So he rang.
Five minutes interim bringing no
answer, he rang again, and then again
and again, until hts arm ached. At the
end or 20 minutes waiter OF forbid
ding aspect opened the door.
did you ring?" he inquired, In .
bass, rumbling voice.
..Of course did" snapped the Pic
adilly visitor.
drew. don't do 1t againl You'll wake
the missis!"
HEATLEss
| In the trolley car / sit
Thinking. mother dear. of you
And the old baseburner stove we used
/ to feed;
AS we shoveled on the coal;
Them was the happy days, oh yes, In
deed.
Stamp. stamp, stamp.
The boys are riding.
! Colder feet each mile they come
| Get the old electric pad.
Slap the mustard onto dad.
| Or he's going to have the flu when
he gets home.
THE FREE LANCE
The free lance has an easy life,
His hours are his own
{And frequently he has a wife
She doesn't live alone
All through the day while he Is out
On some eight hour job,
He stays at home and grows stout,
Free from the busting mob!
He stops and starts whenever he
May choose to set the time,
No clock selects his course, you see,
For writing prose or rhyme.
And yet tits easy to be shown
That he needs forty clerks!
Oh, yes, his hours are his own
The SIXTEEN that he worksl
'Down Goes the Cost Of Living" IL
the head over an editorial in a western
paper. That editor reminds us some
what Of the party who always whistled
when passing through cemetery.
The ex-kaiser objects to having his
face in the films. That makes It unani-
nous.
Mama, want a dark breakfast"
Dark breakfast? What do yo,
mean, child?"
''why. last night you told Mary to
give me light supper, and I didn't
like It,"
A glacier has been christened Lloyt
George but it doesn't show any signs
, of breaking up.
. Mrs, Clarke came running hurriedly
: into her husbands office one morn.
ing.
< "oh. Dick" she CRIED as she gaspet
( for breath, II dropped my diamond
. ring off my finger, and can't fint
ii anywhere"
< Its all right, Bess,- replied Mr.
I Clarke. Il came across 1t in my trous
ers pocket"
And you tell me several men pro
posed marriage to your" he said, saw
agely.
Eyes, several" the wife replied.
8 "Well. I only wish you had married
the first fool who proposed"
IT did"
My daughter Is positively delight
ed with her new piano." said Mrs
: Potts; she's quite familiar, you know
:. with all the classic composers"
Familiar? exclaimed Mrs. PepperJ
: why, she's positively flippant."
Professor Garner reports that tn
q female ape says "Moohoo." and tn
d male replies, "Wahoo." Evolutio
doesn't appear to have carried us yer
far. A chap on the moonlit beach las
i night said, "Who is oo?" and the gil
4 replied, IT'S oo's."
II TAKE this rubber plant into the gar
d den"
Mistress said was to put It on tn
- balcony, SIR"
II do as I tell you. You will put It
:, the garden first. Afterward you CO
put it on the balcony"
my husband says he cannot under
stand women"
Is my husband says after a man doe
= understand women he wishes
didn't"
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