Still He Wondered
One of the physicians at a popular winter health-resort was looking over his books one day, comparing his list of patients. “I had a great many more patients last year than I have this,” he remarked to his wife. “I wonder where they have all gone to?”
“Well, never mind, dear,” she replied. “You know all we can do is to hope for the best.”
A Lesson In It
“The trouble with you ladies of the W.C.T.U. is,” said a man to a member of that organization, “that instead of opposing the christening of a vessel with champagne, you ought to encourage it and draw from it a great temperance lesson.”
“Why, how can we?” asked the “white ribboner.”
“Well,” was the reply, “after the first taste of wine the ship takes to water and sticks to it ever after.”
It Was His Privilege
As an express train was going through a station, says “Tit-Bits,” one of the passengers leaned too far out of the window, overbalanced and fell out. He fortunately landed on a sand heap, so that he did himself no great injury, but, with torn clothes and not a few bruises, said to a porter who was standing by:
“What shall I do?”