St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1919-06-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST AT JAHNCKE
SHIPYARDS in MADISONVILLE
BY D. H. Vinet.

pushing it around, upside down, and
was very busy running UP and down
the road. When he came near me I
said, What's the idea? Why don't
you turn that wheelbarrow UP right?
He said, "why l am crazy, and IL
turn it over they will put load in
it,"
Physicians have discovered a way
to explore our stomachs. They get
the patient to swallow a rubber bag
with an electric light inside of it.
But, let me tell you, that the old
fashioned way of getting "lit up" ap-
peals more strongly to most men.
Just wait until we have a female
Congress. I'm waiting fiuently. /
want to see that House OF MIss-rep-
resentatives in session One of their
arguments will be that women's
minds are cleaner than mems. Well,
they ought to be-they change them
oftener. But let me tell you that
women are not as truthful as men.
For instance, when a man has a
birthday, he takes day off. When
woman has birthday, she takes
years off.
In yesterdays paper / read that
the officials of Japan deny there has
been any graft in any of their gov
ernment departments. And yet the
Japs claim to have become civilized.
That brings US to the question OF
''Votes for Women" I believe in
allowing women to vote, but the
great trouble is if women had the
ballot then suffragettes would want
1t too. Suffragettes say that man
is known by the company he keeps.
| wonder If good man goes around
with bad man, is the good man bad
because he goes with the bad man, or
is the bad man good because he goes
with the good man.
Dietrich: Why is a doctor the
man on earth?
McDougal: Because he treats you
and then makes you pay for it.
Allison: Why is a ship the polit-
est thing in the world?
Heughan: Because it always pre-
sents itself with bow.
Pons: When is a girl not girl?
Ludlow: When she is little
bare.
First Soldier: Too bad about
Smith. He is suffering from she'll
shock, and can't remember q thing
about the past.
Second Soldier: Gee whiz! And
lent him $25 before he was hurt.
Hostess: May we have the pleas
ure of your company this evening,
Colonel?
Colonel: Company, madam?
command regiment.
Baxter: Why is 1t they couldn't
play cards on the ark?
McCary: Because Noah stood on
the deck.
Kelly: Why would women make
better soldiers than men?
Quintzau: Because they can raise
a better infantry.
Koepp: They say that all the
girls that are getting married now
are working girls.
Oullfber: No, they are working
men.
Norris: Do you like girls with
blue eyes?
valdin: No; / like them with
Davis: Don't you think Stock
1eth is an odd fellow?
Calecas: No; he Is an Elk.
Packard: Who do you think first
discovered that the world goes round
and round?
Kelley: Probably some fellow
coming home at 2 o'clock In the
THE MAIDENsS THOUGHTS.
Night and day she lived in hope
That she'd find the sacred dope
That would make men pine,
And say "Be mine."
But they all whined
Nope" just nope"
The ladies OF America seem to
have more luck under a May moon
han any other, judging from events
of the past week.
The United States Congress voted
them the equal suffrage OF man as
Tar as suffrage Is concerned, and now
comes Mrs. Katherine Williams, who
more than held her own with the
stronger sex, in the examination for
pharmicist before the Louisiana State
Board of Pharmacy. She stands
ahead of the list of twelve successful
and is now the happy
possessor of certificate of qualifi-
cation.