A SMILE OR TWO
A Smile or Two An Overzealous Maid Mandy is but a little girl, a little colored girl trying hard to learn how to be a good housemaid. The other day she came to her employer and handed her a...
...but I have hesitated lest, you know, I cause my...
...Oh,' he answered, 'we've tried home talent in vain...
...thereby bringing an quite a lot of things, says that just after be started practicing law in a small town down in Tennessee, a few years ago, a very stout hillsman came into his office one day and announced that he desired to sue a neighbor for ten thousand dollars damages...
...The other day she came to her employer and handed her a card...
...Confound it, I knew that was something I forgot.— Puck...
...Indignant Owner—Sir, you flatter yourself.—London Opinion...
...They are so ignorant of art...
...But why don't you try home talent?' someone asked him...
...Millionaires of that type are so easily hoaxed," he said...
...Why didn't you sue him sooner...
...Troubles of the Editor Editor—Yes...
...brother to offend...
...De lady what gib me dis is in de parlor," she explained...
...Goodness, Mandy...
...Probably' is a pretty strong word...
...Flattered Himself Road Hog (after mishap in which puppy has been run over)—Madam, I will replace the animal...
...Will you, therefore, lend me little Bobby for this evening's performance...
...Thought Them Alive Robert Henrl the well-known artist pf New York, was laughing about an art hoax that had been practiced in Paris on an American millionaire...
...Dey's anoder lady on de steps...
...echoed McReynolds...
...Now we're going over to see what the genuine old masters can do.'"—Chicago Recordr-Her-ald...
...Better make it 'possibly.'"«—London Tit Bits...
...Seeing His Double James C. McReynolds, who investigated the Tobacco Trust for the Government...
...Kase, Mis' Murphy," grinned Mandy, "de one on de do'steps done forgit her ticket...
...Well, suh," said the injured party, "until that there circus come through here last week I thought all the time he wuz payin' me a compliment...
...Owner—But what men have you got to handle the news of the President himself...
...There is no harm, however, in a child's presence at a circus, provided he be suitably escorted...
...I heard recently of an elderly millionaire who was taking his beautiful young wife abroad to have her portrait painted...
...Well, I'd hardly put It that way," hesitatingly answered the other...
...Editor—Nobody...
...Saturday Evening Post...
...I have patiently waited six years for little Bobby to get big enough to visit the circus, and tonight I propose to use him myself...
...A Bit Uncertain "Then I'm to tell the firm," the bill collector said, making a memorandum in his note-book, "that you'll probably settle this account next week...
...We have arranged for two reporters to handle the news of the President's wife, one for each of children, and for the household pets, and still another to cover his country relatives who are visiting Washington...
...Two years ago," he stated, "he called me a hippopotamus...
...Two years ago...
...But the Baptist minister frowned, shook his head and answered: "No, sir, I will not...
...exclaimed the lady, shocked and troubled, "why didn't you ask them both in...
...The Demand for Bobby Little Bobby was the only son of the Baptist minister in Peacham, and when the circus came to town the Methodist minister called and said to his confrere: "My dear friend, I have long had a curiosity to see a circus...
Vol. 5 • March 1913 • No. 9
