From the Czar of Russia: “It’s pretty tough to be seated on the throne one minute and thrown on your seat the next.”
WHAT MOTHERS ALWAYS SAY
“Remember, my son,” said his mother as she bade him good-by, “when you get to camp try to be punctual in the mornings, so as not to keep breakfast waiting.”
FASHION NOTE FROM THE FRONT
“Where are you going?” asked one rookie of another.
“Going to the blacksmith shop to get my tin hat reblocked.”
ONE GERMAN WE FORGIVE
The following story which is going the rounds of the Continental papers, including even those of Austria, must make the Germans gnash their teeth.
A German and a Dane met recently in Schiller’s house in Weimar. As they stood gazing reverently on the scene the German, swelling with pride, remarked to his fellow-visitor:
“So this is where our national poet, Schiller, lived.”