Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Tayntor entertained Mr. and Mrs. Charles Olds and son, Walter, of Syracuse, on Monday, and learned from them that Mr. Olds’ daughter, Mrs. Hazel Hammond, was struck by lightning during a recent thunder storm, the skin being burned from one leg some six inches, and then the lightning followed a water pipe and came out of a faucet.
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Let’s Swell Up and Bust
A man took his wife out to dinner at a hotel restaurant the other night. A short-skirted damsel breezed in and, there being nobody else in sight, proceeded to vamp him.
“My dear,” grinned the fatuous chump to his wife, “that girl over there is smiling at me.”
“That’s nothing,” replied the better half, “when I first saw you I laughed like hell.”
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Joys of Matrimony
Papa—“Has the young man who has been calling on you given you any encouragement?”
Daughter—“Oh, yes, father! Just think last night he asked me if you and mother were pleasant to live with.”