Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-02-11
QUIPS AND QUIDDITIES

certain man is in the habit of dispens-
ing with coat, whether in winter or sum.
mer. During a recent cold snap he was trav.
| cling to town by train. Seated behind him
was a small boy evidently much interested
| in the mans unusual attire. At last the
child's curiosity overcame him and forgetting
| to be polite he asked loudly, Daddy, is that
| man going to play ball?" Then came an adj
monition and whispered explanation. The
| boy was still for an instant and then came
the innocent inquiry, still in loud tone,
| Daddy, what is silly ASST"
The late Edgar Saltus-that brilliant cynic
| was lunching with friend at Claridges
Hotel in London one day. young couple
entered, and Mr.. Saltuss friend murmured
with smile: "See that couple. Well, Ed
gar, they're engaged. I heard him in the
lounge this morning begging for just one"
Engaged? Nonsense said Mr.. Saltus,
and he laughed cynically. "That's Lord Lace
land and his rich American wife. They've
been married over year, man. 1t was
flyer he was begging for"
WELL" reported the new salesman, swing
Ing jauntily into the home office. II got two
orders from Hardnut & Co., today"
Fine, fine!" exclaimed the sales manager,
| enthusiastically.
"Yup. One to get out and the other to
stay out.'-American Legion Weekly.
"The moderate drinker," said William H.
Anderson, the prohibition leader Of New
York, sis usually such type as Peleg
Mannesman. Old Peleg Mannesman sat in
his parlor with demijohn of home brew be-
side him. He tossed off couple Of glasses
of the stuff and proceeded to lecture his son
on the evils of drunkenness and the benefits
of moderate drinking. Never drink too
much ole Peleg concluded. BE a moderate
drinker, like me, boy. But, father said the
young man. how can tell when I've had too
much?' Old Peleg Mannesnan pointed out
of the window. DO you see those two women
standing on the corner?' he SAID. We'll, il
you saw four women there you'd have had
too much-you'd be drunk But father
said the young man, there's only one woman
there"
A man in Kentucky once came across an
old Negro who was fishing with rod and
line in pool Of water in the middle Of the
road.
He approached him, and said: "You won't
catch any fish there, Jake"
"Ah know dat, boss"
"Why, that's only pool OF water left by
the rain this morning"
"Ah know dat, too boss"
"Then what are you fishing there for?"
"Well, it's like dis, boss. Use jes showing
my old woman dat All amt got no time to
tu'n de wringeh. "-Edin burgh Scotsman.
A young man was walking along a lonely
stretch of seashore when the incoming tide
washed up a bottle He picked it up and
saw a slip Of paper inside For several min
utes he refraned from extracting the mes
sage, while toying with the idea that it must
have been scrlwed by some wreck survivor
in an open boat or on IA raft.
Finally he broke the bottles neck, cut his
finger on a piece of Jagged glass and read:
whoever discovers this bottle will find all
the beer gone"
General Coleman Du Pont, Delawares new
senator, was lunchinG in the Senate restau-
rant. This magazine here" he said, laying
periodical aside, contains long article
on the best way to stop hiccoughs Now it
seems to me" AID General Du Pom
chuckIed, cit seems to me- he added "that
good many readers would :ther know the