1925 Cedrus Yearbook

Repartee The flapper and her brother both wanted to use the family car that evening, and the spat at the supper table was becoming lively. Finally, all other arguments having failed, the brother tried innuendo: "Well," he began, "if I were to tell all I know—" "The silence," oared in his sister, "would be oppressive!" Same Old Thing Prof. Smith was unquestionably the kindest-hearted man in town. Also the laziest. "Deane," he told his wife,"when I pass away, I shall leave everything to you." "That's what you've been doing ever since we married," she snapped back. Did He Use Pear's "Speaking of bathing in famous springs," said the tramp, "I bathed in the spring of '91." Strangers "Why do you call them 'Williams'?" She asked with puzzled look, The while he tucked the banknotes Into his pocketbook. The poet eyed his questioner And sadly shook his head. "I do not know them well enough To call them 'Bills'," he said. Mary and Lamb No. 46872 Mary had a little lamb; Its breath was sweet and clean, 'Cause every day upon its hay She sprinkled listerine. Sometimes a man thinks women have no sense because he only knows the popular ones.—Columbia Record President Coolidge is reported to advocate the use of suspenders. He always did believe in placing responsibility where it belongs.—Boston Shoe and Leather Re- porter. Says an alarmist: "Jazz is turning us into barbarians." Well, there is some sat- isfaction in knowing what is doing it.—Toledo Blade. "Nothing makes the modern girl blush," says a woman writer. How about the drug stord?—Kitchener (Ont.) Record. Parent Eskimos never punish their children—perhaps just because being an Eskimo is punishment enough.—Columbia Record. A Chicago minister who said the Bible was "inspiring, but not inspired," is now resigning, tho not resigned.—Dallas News.