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He - Fraulein Dora, your lips are like ripe clierries. She - Are yon fond of cherries? Little Ethel- Why is it woraen is always complainin' about the hireJ. g-irl? Little Dot - Oh, that's just so folks will know they can afford to keep one. Schoolmate- Why do you never touch your piano? Miss Thumper - We're buying it on installments. "What difiérenos does that make?" "I'm afraid if paw should hear me play, he'd stop paying. " She- You must remember that ours was a summer eng-agement. He - That means, if you see anyone you like better, you'll break it? "Yes." "And if Isee anyonellike better" - 'Til sue you for breach of promise." Daughter - Did you find out what it was that papa cut out of the paper? Mother - Yes, I bousfht another copy. I've read itall teroug-h, but I can't see anything1 wrong about it. It's an article on the healthfulness of housework. Maud - I understand that Jack proposed to you last nig-ht and you refused him? Marie - Yes; although, poor fellow; I am afraid that if he had not left me so hurriedly I mig'ht have relented and aeeepted him. Maud - So he tuld me. Mrs. Brand-New - I would like to get a first-class book on etiquette. Mr. Brand-New - An y particular point you want to clear up? Mrs. BrandNew - Yes - hovv to treat one's inferiors. You know, dar, it is only recently that we have had inferiors. "What are you doing?" inquired Hammerfest, as he saw a friend tip a dry goods box on end and proceed to make a sketch of it. "Attending to business," replied his friend, an architect. "I'm engaged in making' a design for a new modern office building1." Hostpss - I will have to leave you a little while. What caú I do for your amusement while I am out? Little Visitor - I wlsh you would let me look at your fainily album. "Do you think you can enjoy that?" "I guess so. Mamma says every body laughs over it." Lady, to her husband - I am growing so fat that I am beginning to feel quite alarmed about it. I have just discovered that I weigh 240 pounds. Two hundred and forty pounds! And where did you get weighed? On the butcher's scales. Oh, then, calm yourself! You weigh exactly half.