An obtrusive " masher" has got his 9»scrts. lie had been making himself a new nuisance on the streets of Baltimore, ogling and speaking to passing girls. Oneday he put iris arm round a young lady. She seized him and screamed for assistance. He attempted to escape, and in, doing so dragged the girl for half a block. length along the street. But she held on grimly till a policeman arrived. The fellow is now doing three months in gaol. Theology and Etiquette.—The lesson had been upon manna, and the teacher was testing the degree in which the nature of tlio subject had been grasped. " Now, Johnnie.* she acked a carefully combed and washed, scholar, " tell tbe class what manna is." "Why—why—it's—it's hats off in church,*' was the surprising answer." Leading; Up To It—Bobby: "I've been an. awful good I.oy since I started going to Sonday school, haven't I?" Mother: " Yes, dear, you've been very good indeed." Bobby: "And you don't distrust mo any more, do you?" Mother: "No, dear." Bobby: " Then why do you continue to hide the pie?*' Easily Explained.—" Why does Johnson stand away and half thut his eyes when be looks at the pictures he is painting? 1 was in his studio the other day, and he made me take up a distant position." " That's easily explained," replied the man addressed. " Did you ever try to look at tbe picture near to them with your eyes open, Well, don'ty you'll faint." You may not have suffered the excruciating agony of Kheumatism, Gout, Lumbago, or Sciatica, and yet you may be a Bhoumatic subject. You possibly have inherited tendencies. Indigestion, Swellings, Stiffness o£ the Joints are Nature's warnings. 41HEUMO will cure you It removes tbe source of the trouble—excess uric acid in the blood- All chemists and stores, 2s 6d aai 4t '6d.— [AdT^.l
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Evening Star, Issue 14002, 8 March 1909, Page 6
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