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nSSSlmSSk Wm ' r - ( X rare DODGING you give me your name, A TRICK OF THE TRADE "Stop!" thundered the client .,at ft the" barber, who was cutting his hair. Then, he continued, in somewhat milder tones: "Why do you insist upon telling me ,those horrible, blood-curdling stories ghosts and robbers while you are .Cutting my hair?" VFm venr sorrv. sir. renlied the barber, "but, you see, when I tell stor- new york The magazine 'feditera jes like that to my clients, their hair lunch club has got a pritty good goak stands on end and it makes it ever on one of their members. sfr3nuch easier to cut." the club is quite some institution, i MODIFIED with magazine editers. all magazine editers goes to lunch at 1 o'clock and gets back to -work at four, its a rule of the union, and no-, boddy was ever known to brake it well, the uther day the club had. been eating for about 2 hours and was just getting nicely warmed np on the job when an outsider that had been invited begun telling one of the editers how mutch he liked a review the editer had written about a new book beleave me, mr. brannigan, he says, your dope on that there book is all to the mustard' it's got the best plot i've seen in a munth of Sundays, the characters are reel htimen beings, and the dilog i3 full of the old pep well, well, says mr. brannigan, you don't tell me, would you mind telling me the name of the book again, i guess ill have to read it and as like as not maby he will, if he gets time before or after lunch, some day. johny o o ! REBUTTING A LIBEL A judge once said to a terrible criminal: "And you actually-had the heart to murder this poor man for a matter of 50 cents!" "Well, your honor," said the crim inal, with an injured-innocence air, ''what do you expect? Fifty cents" here and 50 cerits. there it soon mounts up." Washington Stan iSSfMie week after her father bought ;B&automobile, Julia, aged five, Baid rayer like this: Forgive us our asses as we forgive those who o pass us!" Life. '.oaf F ' n n Jgt&S 511 aser !j "Pardon me, miss, but this isn't Uggp year." JOTfMEAMS J tKNEW IHADloN W TA A SEAriNS, O -m " n'' r.H