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THE GALLEON
demonstrations as long as the
lecture continued then managed
to get him quieted down for
awhile. I wanted to tell him
something of the later inven-
tions, andl I admit that I was
curious to see what his reaction
would be.
I told him that the electric
razor was the very latest thing
out. "What's it good for ?" he in
quired. "Why, since the women
have bobbed hair, they find it
necessary to shave their necks,
and this little instrument les-
sens the Herculean task very
materially." That statement
was 'the straw that broke the
camel's back.' He could not pic-
ture a woman with short hair.
He was unable to elucidate the
truth of my declaration, but
was loath to gainsay it. How-
ever, to a man who had all his
life been accustomed to long
flowing tresses, it was a severe
blow; and in this case it proved
fatal; for since he had" risen
from the tomb, it took but a
slight shock to cause him to
again "shuffle off this mortal
coil" and return to the afore-
named scarophagus and to the
place that Shakespeare has re-
ferred to as "that undiscovered
country from whose bourne no
traveler returns."
NECK AND NECK.
An elderly lady was visiting
the University Hospital in Okla-
homa City.
"Poor boy," she said to an ex-
soldier who had been wounded,
"you must have been through
some pretty tight squeezes."
At this he turned a violent
scarlet and stuttered:
"Well, madam, the nurses
here have been pretty good to
me for a fact." - Oklahoma
Whirlwind."HE LOVES ME NOT"
The professor of mathematics
and his fiancee were out roam-
ing in the fields when he pluck-
ed a daisy and!, looking roguish-
ly at him, began to pull off the
petals, "he loves me, he loves
me not-"
"You are giving yourself a
lot of unnecessary trouble," said
the , professor. "You should
count up the petals, and if the
total is an even number the an-
swer will be in the negative; if
an uneven number, in the af-
firmative."-Iowa Frivol.
Collars are patent strangula-
tion machines worn by men
who laugh at women's clothes-
Illinois Siren.
Father flung down the Sun-
day paper with an exclamation
of disgust. "This scandal sec-
tion," he said, "is not fit for
publication. I've read through
twelve pages of this morning's
edition, and there aren't four
lines in the thing that do not
appeal to the worst in the read-
er."
"You're right," said mother,
picking up the discarded maga-
zine section, "it's terrible. The
things they print nowadays!
Fine stuff to be giving our chil-
dren." Three-quarters of an
hour later she also laid it aside.
Sister, aged eighteen, took it
up and perused it for a matter
of an hour or so. "Such rub-
bish," she said at last, "not
worth reading."
And after brother had looked
it over-long enough to be able
to pass a critical judgment, he
also decided that it was poison
for young minds.
Grandfather was next-and
so on ad infinitum.
-California Pelican.18
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