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HAIL, HAIL, THE GANG'S ALL HERE! One of life's little miracles: Being an umpire and being popular all at the same time. What's become of "Oh gosh, but I wish il would get warm." "Hurrah," breaks forth the laundry man, 9 He's happy as can be. He loves this boiling weather with The heat at eighty-three. He laughs when other people sweat, He giggles when they holler. 'Cause every good sweat means to him Another wilted collar. The sketch above shows an exception to the general rule. It's a hunter filling a trunk after he has arrived at his destination instead of packing it before he " left A butterfly may dance and dazzle the ballroom, but the wallflower is more apt to beautify the home. Indoor shorts: The crippled leg of tht old soldier who "had no to bacco, so tobacco he would beg." Chicago jumping-off place: The ground floor in front of an elevator. Cause for silence: "Who said Til buy'?" The man may place the roof over their heads, but it remains for the wife to make it either a home or a residence. Rockefeller has taken first prize at the Tarrytown Horticultural so ciety exhibit for the largest straw berries. We would advise our lady readers to hurry and put up their strawberry preserves be fore the rise in price. It makes you sore: "Rain tonight and probably Saturday." InterlocutorWhy is a cooking pan like expensive straw hats? Mr. Bones I don't know, Mr. Bones. Why is a cooking pan like expensive straw hats? Mr; Bones Because they're both pan-a-ma's. The artist for this column is out to lunch just now so the above will have to go unillustrated. Since the price of paper has gone up.it seems that rags are also scarce. We used to get about seven a week. Irving Ber lin please note. All patriotic folks who have an automobile that is intending to blow a tire should have it wait until the Fourth of July. Then we could have lots of harmless noise in spite ot, the fireworks law. "Everybody's Doing It" getting a divorce. There were 250,000 issued in America this past year. o o A SOFT SNAP fEP, A BULLET IS DRIVEN OUT Of A GUN BY MEANS OF .exploding Powder'.