A STOCK SUFFRAGE ARGUMENT
A member of Congress and his wife had been to Baltimore one afternoon. When they left the train at Washington, on their return, the wife discovered that her umbrella, which had been entrusted to the care of her husband, was missing.
"Where's my umbrella?" she demanded.
"I fear I have forgotten it, my dear," meekly answered the statesman.
"It must still be in the train."
"In the train!" snorted the lady. "And to think that the affairs of the nation are entrusted to a man who doesn't know enough to take care of a woman's umbrella!"
A DEEP ONE
Johnny stood beside his mother as she made her selection from the huckster's wagon, and the farmer told the boy to take a handful of cherries, but the child shook his head.
"What's the matter? Don't you like them?" asked the huckster.
"Yes," replied Johnny.
"Then go ahead an' take some."