HIO'I) KNOW After their evening meal, Mr and Mrs Jones were chatting together. "I hear the Highbys are giving up that big house they moved into a year ago." he remarked. "That's funny. I was talking to Mrs. Highby last night and she didn't mention it." "Well, I was talking to the mortgagee this morning." said her husband, "and lie did." # i'f & * DESTRUCTIVE Customer: 1 want to exchange this unbreakable doll. Salesman: Anything wrong with it, sir' No, but baby's broken nearly everything in the house with it. # # # * SUFFICIENT After a long talk on the value of peace, good will, and disarmament, a teacher asked his class if objected to war. "Yes. sir, T do," said one boy. "(Jood." said the teacher. "Tell mo why?" "necau.se, sir." said the boy, "wars malic history, and I don't like history." li!<\RTEST The weary, road-stained hitchhiker entered the oflice of a gipsy fortuneteller in Cincinnati. The motioned to a chair and then sal opposite (he hileh~h iis er. ".Now, my friend," the gipsy began, "let me r-.amine the palm of your hand and I will see what the future holds for you." "Never mind my palm," he .sighed. ".lust look at my thumb and 1 tell me when I'm going to reach St. LiOUiti!"
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Hutt News, Volume 16, Issue 13, 26 August 1942, Page 7
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