SMILE AWHILE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 73, 30 March 1929, Page 15

SMILE AWHILE

Tod: "Whore did you get that black eye. Bill?" • ■ Bill: "It was done by a follow at whose wedding I was best man." "Why, what for?" inquired Ted. "Because I kissed the bride," replied his friend. "But I thought it was the custom for the best man to kiss the bride," said Ted. "Yes," replied Bill, "but it was two years after the ceremony." A negro waiter employed in a New York cafe "sees good in everything." One afternoon a customer entered and ordered soft-shelled crabs. When they had been served, he said to the waiter, "Henry, these crabs are very small." " Yessuh." "And they don't seem very fresh, either." "Well, snh, it's lucky den dat dey's small, ain't it?'' "Once 1 tried that stunt of increasing my vocabulary by learning three new words a day." , "How'd you make out?" '' After a week or so nobody know what I was talking about." "The police think they've uncovered a new murder mystery." "What are the circumstances?" "Over at the library they found a man's nose buried in a book." "How did this rare dish come to be broken, Norah?" ' "It's too bad, ma'am; you see, I was accidentally dusting it." "Look here, Jim, I've got a bone to pick with you." "Oh, no—l'm a vegetarian." One day, while a certain open-air market was held, it rained incessantly. Night came on, and a stallkeeper, who sold spectacles, had not had a single customer, As he was about to pack up an elderly old lady camo to the stall and began to try on several, pairs, but I without succoas. Not any, apparently, would suit her, and the stallkeeper was in despair till he said, "Wait a minute, lady, I think I've got a pair.; wot'U suit yer, Two college students were arraigned before the magistrate, charged with a breach of the traffic laws, hurdling the low spot in the road in their motor-car. "Have you a lawyer?'', asked the magistrate. . :.. ■''■•\ 1 "We're not going to ..have-any lawyer," answered the elder of the students. "We've decided to tell the truth." '' Come, come, you shouldn 't refuse to lend me money. One friend should always be willing to help another." "I know it, but you .will insist on always being the other."