The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-02-10

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II The modern vampire II nothing
I more than an imaginative improve
! ment on the bright-eyed girl Of the
! old fashioned church bazaar who usec
! to sell you a dimes worth Of home
mede taHy for yt.2k.
! q q q
i A Frenchman learning English said
to his tutor: English is = queer Ian
euage. What does this sentence
mean! Should Mr.. Noble, who sits
for constituency, consent to stand
again and run he will in AL probable
lity have walkover'"
"Wcll, BILL asked q neigkbor.
Hear the boss has had = fever.
/ How's his temperature tcday?" The
hired man scratched his head and de-
cided not to commit himself. 'Taint
for me to say he replied. HE died
last night"
A Milwaukee astrologer says the
world will be flooded with twins, trip
lets and bankruptcies during the next
six years. This is a warning to a
certain forest official of this section.
When he moved to Mccall twins came.
Now he is moving to Salt Lake.
Labor doesn't get everything it asks
for, but we suspect the Salt Lake
brickmasons who asked their EN-
ployers to reduce their wages from
$40 to SO per day will be accommodate
ed, and not be compelled to strike to
enforce their demands.
'The short skirt is intended to APP
peal only to ones artistic nature"
says a fashion writer. Well, why
didn't they say that before? Our a.
tistic nature can give it reasonable
and in that view Of the
ease we shall take another look.
A couple who desired to attend a
society ball left their 6-year-old son
with neighbor. The woman think
ng to make nice remark about the
BOYS mother, said "Your mother
certainly looked nice. She was all
iressed up" Y"Yes'm," replied the
roy, "she had on everything she got
or Christmas 'cepting her pereola-
orr
"Please give me d package of to- {
,acco," said a man as he dropped into
/ cigar store the other day. "A
package is 80 cents, two for 80 cents"
'eplied the clerk. swell, since this 4
S my last dollar. believe I'll only {
AXE one replied the customer as he
eft the store Which reminds Us of !
he question, If you were spending i
,our last dollar, what would you buy G
With it?
The conversation had changed from
me thing to another, finishing up with
Ugh buildings. The American thot
"a had them all beaten when he said
here was building in New York so
Ugh that it took person at least r
wenty-four hours to get TO the top.
Sure said Pat, "There's a little
uilding was working on some time c
go in good ould Dublin, when one !,
aturday morning about II o'clock d
dropped my hammer from the top, c
nd sure and begorra, when went to U
-ork on Monday morning the thing
it me on top Of the head"
She was a pretty and ambitious girl q q
nd had studied the matrimonial "
roblem to nicely. eyes, | sup
ose / shall wed eventually" she said,
but the only kind of masculine nu;- v
anee that will suit me must be tail t
nd dark, with classical features. He v
lust be brave yet gentle, withal he =
lust be strong-a lion among men il
ut knight among ladies'" That G
eening bowlegged, lath-framed Is
outh wearing check trousers and r
moking Z cigarette that smelt worse II
lan burning boot, ratified on the il
ack door and the girl knocked four :
lmblers and cut glass fruit dish off
he sideboard in her haste to get to
i'm.
4 4
A shell shock victim went to the
ighlands of Scotland for his health.
e rented lodgings from an old lady
/ remote village, aud the first day
+ his stay he had boiled eggs for
boiled eggs for dinner, and
billed eggs for supper. After sup
&c he went out and bought pound
I sausage in skins. He returned ;
nd slapped the sausage down before
lie old lady. "Here, Tn tired of
ygs," he said "Coak up this sau-
sge for my breakfast tomorrow.
Sasa goot,' said the old lady, shat
30 shall cook it?n sWhy, fry it