SMILE AWHILE

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 17, 20 January 1934, Page 10

SMILE AWHILE

Which i 8 the lightest town In Scotland?— Ayr. Why are- organ-builders like1 trams f—B«« • cause.' they.1 make many stops.. When aro.,teeth like yerbs?—When they ut . regular, Irregular, - and' "defective. •"" , ' "CUCKOO. 1*- v City. MUCH SIMPLER. , Spelling Is so difficult, for T-E-A is T, And U I think is T-O-U, and 8-E-E is C. Writing would be easier, I really think,'doni U, If we could use the alphabet just as ire wanted A SIMPLE TASK.' The lady of the bouse recognised the trsmp. "You were here last week," she' said reprovingly. "I gave you a large cake, and yet you come again." i, ' "That's quite all right, lady/ said the tramp. 'Tour cake was nothing to me. I used ' to be a sword swallower." THE MATTER. "Why, what Is the matter, Elsie?" atkel Mother as she found her little daughter cry* Ing. "Well, I was telling myself a itory. Mum* my," said Elsie, "and It was to sad It mad* me cry," ! "LAUGHING WATBR" (12)1 , Johnsonrille. , HIS MISTAKE. ' An absent-minded professor made his way into the dressing room and picked up what ho thought was a hand-mirror and gand ateadlly at it. (What he held was a hair brush.) ' "Gracious," he exclaimed. "I do' want ft shave." , / "FRANKENSTEIN" (13). City. • \ ■ RETURNING THE COMPLIMENT. The poet would accept no payment for hit offering. *- •"1 submit it to you as a compliment," h« said. "If that Is so," remarked the editor, "them allow me, sir, to return the compliment." THE LOUD SPEAKER. ' The friend of the family was tnquirinf after the' baby. "Can he talk yet, Johnnie?" »lx-ye»r-old was asked. . .' - ''Rather I" wag the reply. "We're now teaching him to keep quiet."