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Peru Pertinent and Impertinent 



A Minority 



Fiist Clerk — "How many people work in your 

 office?" 



Second Clerk — "Oh, I sbould say roughly about 

 a third 01' them." — London Sketch. 



Employer — "Sorry, hut 111 have to reduce it. 

 1 .im going to get married mysell." — Sydney Pout. 



Tough Indeed 



Employee — "I ^^'ouhl like more salary, 

 going to get married." 



I am 



A Tall Building 



Laborer — And have they tall buildings in Amer- 

 ica. Pat? 



Pat — Tall buildings have they — faith, Mike, 

 ihe last one I worked on we had to lay on our socks: he's got cold feet," was the answer 

 stomachs to let the moon pass. Emporia Ga::ette. 



Kansas Diagnosis 



An Emporia girl was complaining to her chum 

 Ihe other day of the way her steady was treat- 

 ing her. 



"Why don't you give him the mitten?" the 

 friend asked. 



"It isn't a mitten he needs, it's a pair of 



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Lumber Conventions Are Different Now 



(From the Lumberni'-n's Prinu-i, published IHOO — Dra\\inf? and Ie.\I by Rober-t L. Slearn.s.) 



What is this? 



This is the Head-quart-ers of a Lum-ber-man's con- 

 ven-tion. 



But don't they have a meet-ing? 



Oh, yes, that is in prog-ress now up stairs some- 

 where. 



Do they all at-tend the meet-ing? 



Bless your heart, no ! No one goes but the of-fi-cers 

 and a few oth-ers that wan-der in by mis-take. 



What do they do at the meet-ing? 



Oh, they read the min-utes of the last meet-ing, for 

 which no-body cares a "dam," some-one reads a 

 ninety-eight page ar-ti-cle on the Har-mo-ny 

 ex-ist-ing be-tween Man-u-fac-tur-er and Job- 

 ber; then they wake up, the of-fi-cers re-e-lect 

 themselves, vote the meet-ing the most en-thu- 

 si-ast-ic ever held and adjourn. 



I think I should like to go to a con-ven-tion. 



Of course, we all do. 



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