Yemen and
its K h a t
Three Wlee Men of Yemen.
(P r e p a r e d by th e N a tio n a l G aograph lc
S o cie ty . W a sh in g to n . I>. C .)
EMEN, an Independent country
of A rabia, across the lower end
of the narrow Red sea from the
Italian colony of E ritrea, la the
la te st land to e n te r Into treaty rela­
tions w ith Italy. As a result th e likeli­
hood Is seen of the peaceful p en etra­
tion of southw estern Arubla by Ita l­
ian Influence.
T his reign, like all o th er p a rts of
A rabia, w as under at least nominal
T urkish control before the g reat -var;
but since It has constituted an Ima-
niate, under the rule o f the Arab Imam
Yahya ben M uham mad ben Ham id al
Din, who rules from Sabla. Yemen
has the distinction and the good for­
tu n e to be one of th e few p a rts of
A rabia th a t a re of ag ricu ltu ral Impor­
tance. U nder a stable governm ent It
w ould have an Im portant commercial
fu tu re. T he B ritish p ro tecto rate of
Aden Is one of the chief outlets for Its
produce.
Yemen’s American fume rests p rin ­
cipally upon the fam iliar nam e of an
alm ost deserted city, Mocha, through
which coffee no longer comes, w here
debris clu tters the streets, w here only
m osques rem ain Intact,
Coffee still Is a m ajor crop of Ye­
men, but It Is exported largely through
H odelda, and In even g reater q uantity
via Aden, port of the B ritish pro­
te c to ra te to the south, which today Is
the commercial neck o f the Bed sea
bottle.
O rder coffee In Yemen, however, and
you will not repeat the experim ent.
F o r the A rabians of coffee-land pre­
fer the husks to the berries, and the
brew therefrom has been com pared to
hot barley w ater. To the occidental
mind th is concoction affords n eith er
flavor or stim ulus. T he Yemenite looks
elsew here for a stim u lan t—to kbat.
T he world knows alm ost nothing
about khnt. O ur scientific books are
nearly silent on the subject. ' T rav el­
ers who ought to have observed Its
uses w rite from heresa.v and usually
w ith th e most am azing Ignorance.
T here a re even E uropeans In the Ye­
men, whose serv an ts have chewed khut
every day of th eir lives, with so little
know ledge of native life and custom s
th a t a fte r years of residence they
a s k : “Why, w liat Is k h at? We never
h eard of It.” Yet no Yemen event Is
com plete w ithout Its presence, and no
Yemen Arab—man, woman or child—
passes a day If he can help It w ithout
th e aid of at least a few leaves of the
precious khnt.
supply Is so lim ited th a t It Is nevet
seen except among the richest mer
chants of Zeblde, Ibb, Talz and Sanaa
■ The commonest kind Is Moquarl, which
grows In the district of M akatra
about four day s’ camel ride from
Aden, and most of the 2,560 camel
loads of k hat which reach Aden In
th e course of a year Is of th is variety.
K hat cultivation Is simple. The
p lan t bears n eith er flowers nor seeds,
but is grown from cuttings. A fter the
farm er has flooded his field till the
sdll has absorbed Its utm ost of w ater,
he rovers It w ith goat droppings and
allows It to “ripen" for a few days.
Then be buries the cuttin g s In shallow
holes from 4 to 8 feet ap art, with
space enough betw een th e rows for
pickers to pass. B ut th e Yemen cow
and th e sad-eyed camel, whose maw Is
never filled, have a nice taste In khat
cuttings, and to discourage these m a­
rau d ers the form er covers each hill
with thorn tw igs and spiny cactus
leaves. Som etim es be tra in s one of
th e half-w ild dogs which infest the
village to guard th a t p a rticu lar Held.
At the end of a y ear th e young
shrubs are two feet high with a th ick ­
ly spread green foliage 18 Inches In
diam eter. Behold now the farm er go­
ing out Into the dawn of each morning
to gaze at his field and th e sky In the
hope of seeing th e [tortents of harvest
time. On a m orning the air Is thick
with bulbuls, sparrow s, w eaver birds,
shrilly clam oring. They rise and fall
upon his plantH, picking a t the tender-
est leaves. "Allah be p ra ise d !” cries
the sim ple farm er, “th e leaves are
sweet and ripe for the m ark et.”
And now he calls bis women and the
wives of his neighbors to th e crop-
picking. U nder a bower of Jasmine
vines, with plumes of th e sw eet-sm ell­
ing reban In th eir turbans, the farm er
a n d ’his cronies gather to drink klshar
from tiny cups and smoke the hubbuk,
while the womenfolk bring them arm ­
fuls of the freshly cut k h at leaves.
W hat a Joyous tim e It Is for all the
village; for alw ays the farm er dis­
trib u tes the whole of his first crop
among his neighbors.
T he kbat p lan t grows from 5 to 12
feet In height and then It stops. As
the foliage thickens, th e larger
branches are pruned out to prevent
crowding, and when th e p lant Is six­
teen years old the top usually diss. It
is cut off about a foot above the
ground, and from th e stum p new
shoots spring out and th e pluut Is re­
born.
Khat Is Their Stimulant.
Marketing In Aden.
Y
W hen th e European Is weary he
In Aden the nrrlval of the khat
calls tor alcohol to revive Idin; when <*nmels is looked forw ard to as the
he Is Joyful he tak es wine, th at he chief dally event. When they arrive,
may have more Joy. In like m anner about noon, the m arket is filled with a
th e Chinese woos his “w hite lady,” restless, yelling mob. Bedlam has
th e poppy flower, th e Indian chews broken loose, but It Is a m erry, good-
bhang,
and
the
W est
A frican n atu red bedlam.
seeks surcease In kola. K hat Is
A fter the k h at Is weighed on the
m ore to the Yemen A rab than any
governm ent scales and duly taxed, It
of these to Its devotees. It Is no n a r­
Is divided Into bundles the thickness
cotic, wooing sleep, but a stim ulant,
o f a m an’s forearm . Then the sellers
like alcohol. U nlike alcohol, It con­
m ount tables and auction It off.
ceals no demon, but a fairy. The
In an hour the place Is all but de­
k h at e a te r will tell you th a t when he
follows th is fairy It takes him Into re­ serted and the foot-marked, earthen
gions overlooking paradise. He calls floor U ttered with debris. Now come
the venders of firewood and all the
th e plant the "flower of paradise."
I C atha edulls, as the p lan t Is known despised castes, like scavengers, to
botanlcally, grows to some extent In buy the refuse for a few pice. But
A byssinia, but It Is cultivated chiefly out In the streets may be seen h u n ­
In th e m ountains of the Yemen In­ dreds happily wending homeward, a
te rio r behind Aden. T he word k h at Is bundle of th e precious leaves under
said to be derived from an o th er Arable each arm , th eir Jaws w orking and
word, kut, m eaning sustenance or re­ th eir eyes full of a delicious content.
viving principle, and refers to the It Is close on to noon, and you will not
most salient property of the plant, I see them again until a fte r two o’clock.
C ontrary to the general opinion,
th a t of exalting the sp irits and sup­
porting the bodily stren g th , under ex­ k h at Is never used as a beverage In
trao rd in a ry conditions, of one who the Yemen, but the fresh leaves are
The youngest
e a ts Its leaves. T he researches of Invariably chewed.
A lbert B eltter of th e U niversity of leaves are th e best. They have a
fltrassburg. seem to show th at Its ac­ sweetish, slightly astrin g en t taste, not
tive principle Is an alkaloid In the u npleasant to tb e E uropean palate,
form of crystals, very b itter and odor­ but certainly not alluring. When
brewed, they lose most of th eir
less.
Along the steep, terraced slopes of stren g th and the flavor of th e d e c o r -
th e m ountains betw een T aiz and tlon Is much like th a t of grapevine
Yerlm you will find the sm all p la n ta ­ "cigarettes."
tions of the khat farm er. Not till you
J u s t w hat Is the exact toxic effect
have climbed nearly 4.000 feet will of k h at on tb e hum an system has
you see th e first one, and when yop never yet been ascertained. It Is cer­
reach 6,000 feet you will have passed tainly a stim ulant with a lively and
th e last
nearly Im m ediate effect upon the
Varieties and Cultivation.
brain and nerve cells; th e gloomiest
Rokharl is the sw eetest o f sll k h at man becomes cheerful under Its Influ­
and by fa r the most expensive. The ence, th e most enervated active.
Cunning Forgery
Plot Is Revealed
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| M ontreal M an Lays
C laim to Labrador -
London.— Rev. Isaac de la Pen-
ho of the Sephardi congregation
of Spanish und Portugese Jew s
at Montreal has Just subm itted
to the privy council of the B rit­
ish em pire a modest claim to
ow nership of the whole of
Labrador. The laud claimed com­
prises 511,006 square miles—
about ten tim es th e urea of Eng­
land.
Penho bases his claim, accord­
ing to the Jew ish World, upon
a ch arter grunted to one Joseph
de la Penho, a w ealthy m erchant
of R otterdam , by Klug William
III.
According to Reverend Pen­
ho his ancestor on one occasion
saved King William und several
members of th e royal family
from
drow ning
when
ship­
wrecked. and the king m appre­
ciation bestowed upon “Joseph
de la Penho and his heirs pos­
session of L abrador.”
LIFE’S
LITTLE
JESTS
Realty corporation. All th a t he was
to do, in retu rn for $15,060, w as to
adm it them to the offices of the cor­
poration. The whole thing w as to be
done on a high plane—no safe-blowing,
robbery or gun-pluy.
New York.—The cast of “T he G reat
“You’re the kind of a man th a t could
W HY CHANGE?
Capitol T h eater $148,1100 Check F org­ use money," they told him. “You
ery" includes a sign p ain ter, a F atty ought to be a heavy spender—not Just
A friend of ours com plains th a t
Arbuckle-sized elevator boy, a girl fas
a $28-u-week elevator pusher. With
the coal he gets now adays Isn’t w hat
clnated by an auto m atic Ice-producing fifteen grand you can have a swell
It used to be or w hut It should be for
machine, an elderly and Innocent New time. H aven’t you got a girl th a t can
the cost. We are rem inded of the
Jersey business man of established help you have a good tim e?”-
story of an Inventor who w ent to a
honesty and several as yet unidentified
The picture was too alluring for
coal dealer and s a id : “I have here
persons. The elev ato r boy, who ad ­ Itoedel, as he thought of the luxury-
som ething that yon'll want, som ething
mits, according to th e police, th a t he loving Nancy Kirby, und he gave In.
new—a substitute coal th a t you can
got $1,500 out of the $148,000, Is held He closed his eyes. The sign painter
sell a t half price."
In the Tombs on a forgery charge. The and his associates went Into the More­
“Shucks I" returned the coal man.
girl Is being detained as a m aterial dall Realty corporation offices one
"H aven't we got one already th a t we
w itness.
night, got out th e company’s check
«ell at full price?"—T rnnscrlpt.
William Itoedel, th e elev ato r o p era­ book and w rote two checks—each for
tor, Is w hat detectives cull a "sap ” or $78,560. They used the special m a­ 'î<ÎX*xè)<ÎXîXsKÏ)>îXstîXîXSXSXsXîX^«' CLQLQLQXrCXO
“sucker." He w as not, according to chine by which authentic checks of the
REJECTED
the charge against him, un aw are of company are identified, handed Itoedel heard th a t "F atty ” Roedel had
the plot. But he w as so naive th at $1,500 In p a rt paym ent of his share signed his Job ut the Capitol.
be got but a fraction of his sh are of and departed.
T his w as a thin clue to work on.
the loot. T he respectable business
Doing so they heard th a t Roedel had
Hire an Executive.
man was E. P. Ford, sixty-four years
Then they left M anhattan and took a girl friend nuined Nancy and they
old.
up
headquarters In Newark. T heir looked up some of the girl’s friends.
Mr. Ford knew nothing of th e plot,
first
step there w as to Insert an ad­ W here was she living? The friends
und when he finally becam e suspicious,
said they did not know, but some of
notified the auth o rities.
T he sign vertisem ent In a uew spaper saying them rem arked thut there had been
th
at
they
w
anted
an
executive
to
op­
p ain ter, whose nam e Is e ith er un­
reports th at she seemed to be pros­
known or being w ithheld, w as the erate an office. T his was In the name pering.
of
the
Forco
P
roducts
company.
Mr.
"m aster mind" In a schem e a s clever
“She's living In a flat w here there's
as any th at clever crim inals have yet Ford nnsw ered th eir advertisem ent an Ice-making m achine,” the detectives
and
agreed
to
a
salary
of
$t56
a
evolved. Nancy Kirby, the girl In ter­
fluully were told.
ested In refrig eratio n , w as merely week and a share of the profits. He
Fascinated by Machine.
w
as
told
to
open
offices
in
the
M
ilitary
Roedel’s sw eetheart.
T his proved a fertile source of In- I
P
ark
building
In
Newark,
engage
Tbe largest. If not th e chief, c h a r­
form ation. It developed th at Nancy ■
acte r In the plot, w as Itoedel. The stenographic help and prepuce for a Kirby was living ut No. 7 W est Ninth i
elevator boy had been an object of rush of business. One of bis supposed street, a fine new apartm ent hotel at j
E dw ard—Could we m arry on my
pride, If also of some em barrassm ent, employers called him self Ilow urd P. the corner of F ifth avenue, w here j salary?
D
wyer
and
the
other
w
ent
by
the
a t the Capitol th e a te r on Broadw ay.
there were refrig eratin g pMiehlnes In j Mary—J u s t nbout, but I'd w ant to
Once he bad been a slender chap, but name of Graham.
each apartm ent. Nancy had promised J e a t the next day.
Soon
afterw
ard
the
two
men
came
the ease of his life caused hint to grow
“F atty " th a t she would keep quiet
rapidly. H ired eight y ears ago, he In with checks th at they w lshetf to about th eir sudden affluence. But the
Old Habit» Cling
was becoming so large th a t passen­ deposit. They told Ford to open an Ice machine w as too much for her.
Ira te H usband—-Why Is It th a t con­
gers In the building began to com­ account, and he did so, In hts own
“All you do," she told friends, “Is founded new maid never answ ers when
name, nt the N ational Newark and
plain th a t no one else could get Into
to slip a tray of w ater In It. In a we ring the bell?
Essex
Banking
company.
He
w
as
told
Ills elevator. H e weighed 256 pounds.
couple of m inutes you yank It out und
Ills W ife (placidly)—I don’t think
The M oreilall Itealty corporation to deposit two checks, each for $76,- you have a lot of sm all cubes of Ice.
we'd b etter be too exacting a t first,
runs the C apitol th eater. One of Its 500 each draw n on the E quitable T rust It's Just like magic."
Horace. The girl tells me she used to
rules has been never to discharge an company of New York, and each ap­
H er friends w ere properly Im­ be employed ut a telephone exchange.
parently signed by the Moredall
employee who w as faith fu lly p erfo rm ­
pressed,
so
much
so
th
a
t
when
detec­
Realty corporation. Dwyer and G ra­
ing Ids duties. Even the most ex act­
tives crossed th eir trnll they told of IL
Case of the Doc»!
ing official could not com plain th a t ham explained they were th e profits Then followed the unhappy evening re­
Itoedel w as doing an y th in g else. If be from a real estate deul. Ford deposit­ cently when the operatives called nt the
F irst P ugilist—I’m hard, I am i
ed
the
checks.
Second Pugilist—"Uh, huh! A fter
w as grow ing corpulent It w as an act
A few days la te r the two business F ifth avenue apartm ent. "F atty " him ­ I Investigate your anatom y with my
of God and certainly not a cause for
self,
gorgeous
In
a
brocade
bathrobe,
discharge.
T h ere w ere no o th er men breezed In smoking big cigars. opened the door. He looked a t the boxing gloves there'll be somebody
places vacant In th e th e a te r and he Ford bad been slightly puzzled by the men and knew at once who they were. Investigating your anatom y w ith rub­
fact th a t he had been asked to do
could not be tran sferred .
“Come on In," he said. “I snw you ber ones.
So Itoedel continued operating the nothing at all. B ut his em ployers ex­ a t the Capitol last week. I'll tell you
elevator, even If casualty Inspectors plained all this by saying th a t a big all about It. I'm tired of th is F ifth
A Puritt
m aking th eir periodical exam inations deal, which w as to s ta rt everything, avenue stuff, anywuy. Give me Sec­
“S arah amm oniac—you have It, of
w
as
banging
fire.
They
told
him
to
of the m achinery looked at him with
course."
ond avenue every tim e."
a suspicious eye and Intim ated th at draw $88,500 In cash. T his he did.
“Do you mean sal amm oniac?”
T he detectives removed th eir derby
T
he
next
day
they
said
to
draw
$79,-
they w ere going to reduce the num ber
h ats and went In. They found the asked the druggist.
of persons legally perm issible as long 500 additional, leaving $5,000 on de­ place stocked with cigars, candles and
"I believe It Is som etim es called
as he continued to operate th e hoist. posit. Ford also did this.
fruits. " F a tty " had been p artial to th a t," replied the lady stiffly.
From
then
on,
for
alm
ost
a
week.
“F a tty "—so he w as called by his
these. They also found Nancy, un­
phrase-m aking fellow w orkers— w as Ford sat In his office and w aited for de­ happy and bitterly regretting she had
Improved With Age
velopm
ents
In
W
ashington.
He
be­
paid $28 a week and seemed contented.
cam e suspicious th at bis employers told her friends In various motion
H ew itt—George W ashington could
Liked His Job.
w ere not entirely honest and suggest­ picture th eater ticket cages that she not tell a lie.
H is salary may not have been com­
Je w e tt—Well, statesm anship wus
ed th a t the E quitable T ru st company hud struck It rich. The rent of the
m ensurate with his size, but tb e post
Investigate the authenticity of the place. It developed, was $325 a month. only In Its Infancy In Ills time.
a t th e Capitol carried with It pleasant
Roedel wag taken In charge by the
tw o check». Tbe drafts, being ex­
privileges. He bad passes for most
trem ely skillful forgeries, hud been police anil so wns the girl. He tulked i
Not That Way
of the o th er B roadw ay motion picture
passed by th e bank w ithout question. freely, the police say, about the sign I He— People are saying you m arried
th eaters, for Instance. Very freq u en t­
p
ain
ter
and
his
friends
anil
about
how
B ut when the Moredall Realty corpora­
me because I hud money.
ly he w as given seats for legitim ate
tion was notified th eir real n atu re was he had perm itted them to enter the
She— Nothing of the sort I The rea­
shows. Often he appeared with Miss
offices of tbe M oredall Realty cor­
discovered.
son wus th at I had no money myself.
Nancy Kirby, known along Broadway
poration.
M in ag sr Eliminated.
as “his steady.” Miss Kirby, nine­
“F atty " adm itted th at he had been
Roth the N ational Surety company
Real Courage
teen, or so, an d p retty , also gradually
played for an easy thing. They never
and
the
American
Surety
company
had
acquired the puss courtesy a t other
paid him more than the $1,500. He I Maxine— You can say w hat you like
co
n
tracts
w
ith
the
E
quitable
T
rust
th eaters.
had ten $100 hills und $15 In small bills j about Reggie! H e's brave, anyway.
One day some weeks ago Boedel wns com pany to protect the bank against with him. T he rest had been spent
Velma—How so?
Ford, naturally, wns the
o perating hts cor and listening with forgeries.
Maxine— He keeps a pet squirrel.
for the necessities of life on Fifth
a som ew hat bored look to th e occa­ first man questioned. So stra ig h tfo r­ avenue. He begged the detectives to I
w
ard
was
his
explanation,
so
Ingenious
sional gibes from passengers about his
let him keep the $15 ns a souvenir of
SUFFICIENT FOR H IM
size. He w as due to go off duty early the schem e und so natural his Inno­ bis days of luxury.
in tb e evening and w as to tak e Nancy cent p a rt In It th a t no one suspected
out. Possibly he w as beginning to feel for a moment th a t he was In any way
th a t $28 a week w as a sm all salary on guilty. He bad lived In E ast O range O ne Man S p en d s T im e
which to give a girl a good time. It fo r a decade, had been In I'arls as the
in C o llectin g O dd N am es
Is quite possible th a t Nancy had s ta rt­ rep resentative of a textile company
Tacoma, W ash.—Speaking of names,
and
had
at
one
tim
e
been
a
vice
presi­
ed to urge him to earn more. At all
D. W. C lapsaddle declares he has
events, so his story la te r related to dent of the D urhex L eather company found many others as bad or worse
th e police goes, he lent a receptive of Newark.
than his own. F o r twenty-five years
F ord w as prom ptly elim inated os a
e ar to evil suggestions from a man
he has carried a book In which he Jots
p
articip
an
t
In
tbe
conspiracy
and
who had form erly painted signs
d ’”7n names of people whose nomen­
w ent with police and the surety com­
around the theuter.
clature Is unusual, and It contains a
Tbe a rtist, Itoedel’» alleged story pany operatives to exam ine rogues W blteleather, Turnlpseed, Waggon-
goes on, said th at he knew o f a mag­ gallery and private detective agency wheel,
L eathterberry,
Grindstone,
nificent trick w hereby he had picked photographic collections.
Shears, B rickbat, and W hetstone. The
Alfred
T
yrell,
chief
claims
ad
ju
ster
up $12,500 In Springfield, Mass. It
shortest he has heard of Is Ek.
was a cinch Htid now, with several for the N ational Surety company, and
friends, be wns anxious to try It on a D etectives August Mayer and Grover
Dogs S ta r t F ir e
“Son!
You left this office early
larg er scale. Roedel, the man went Cleveland Brown took charge of the
South
W eare, N. H.—Two dogs yesterday. How w as It you said noth­
Investigation.
Detectives
frequented
on, had the freedom of the building In
ing to me?"
which Is the C apitol th eater. He places w here crim inals were likely to fighting In a barn n ear here caused
“1 suld good-by, sir I"
knew of the offices of the Moredall gather, listened to rum ors, but finally1 a $11,000 fire. They upset a lantern.
G irl’s F a scin a tio n for Ice
M ach in e H elp s in S o lv ­
ing B ig C rim e.
GRASSHOPPERS, ONCE PEST,
ARE NOW MISSED IN WYOMING
Cowboy State Now Ready to Declare
Truce W ith Ancient Enemy and
Welcome Them Back.
Cheyenne, Wyo.— Wyoming w ants
more grasshoppers. T he cowboy state
Is ready not only to d eclare a truce
with Its ancient enemy, but to bid the
[test welcome home to tb e Big Horn
basin.
In th e Wyoming of antiq u ity the
hoppers flew In clouds thick enough
to obscure the sun. Five years ago
the basin had plenty. The plague did
Its annual dam age to farm crops.
T urkeys w ere Introduced to com bat
the Insects, and did so successfully.
They routed the hoppers from the
farm land and pursued th e depleted
Insect army to m ountain terrain .
Now a severe decline th reaten s tbe
grasshopper crop and lam entations are
being heard from the ranchm en, who,
In the m eantim e have discovered th st
they can reap enorm ous profits from
turkeys, grown half wild on the g rass­
hopper range In the m ountain foot­
hills. The turkey growing Industry
has Increased by leaps und bounds;
grusshoppers have accordingly de­
clined. G rasshopper preserves for the
propagation of turkey food are a pos­
sibility of the future.
Big Horn basin turkeys, excelling
others because the clim ate and food
conditions found In the basin make
It a natural paradise for turkeys, a l­
ready are fam ous all over the United
S tates for th eir superiority. They are
sought eagerly by dealers, who pay
exceptional prices to the growers, 41
| cents a pound being the 1925 rate. Rig
j Horn basin ranchm en can grow rich
' on turkeys If only they can produce
' enough fowls. An unlim ited num ber
■ of fowls can be produced If only the
grasshopper range bears up. As m at­
ters are, production cost Is one-third,
i or less, of the selling price.
C arn egie H ero W orks
W ay T hrough C o lleg e
Eugene, O re.—A lthough he has ac­
cess to $1,600 from the C arnegie hero
fund, aw arded him In addition to a
medal for bravery, Vernon Calluwuy,
U niversity of Oregon senior. Is work­
ing his way through school by washing
dishes. T his became known when
tru stees of the C arnegie fund wrote
tbe university for a record of Calla­
way's scholastic standing.
C allaw ay received the aw ards for
attem pting to save the life of a school­
m ate at St. Joe, Idaho. The Ice broke
while the boys were skating and the
friend fell through.
Callaway Jumped In and tried to
keep him from sinking until help
came.
The boy drowned, however,
before help came.
G la d to P a y
Philadelphia.—B ernard J. Willis Is
happy to pay a fine of $100 to a
bachelors’ club for getting m arried.
Mrs. Willis recently won a bathing-
beauty c o n te st
Mother’» Tip
F riend—I suppose you cook w hat
your husband likes.
Young Bride— N o; m other put m s
on to a b etter plan than thut.
I
started housekeeping w ith the under­
standing th at he Is to like w hat I cook.
A Skeptic
Murdock—W hat did Mr. Dubb do
a fte r m issing his seventh putt?
Joyce—Took out his tap e m easure
and tneusured the ball, then the diam ­
e te r of the hole,
A Liberal Parent
"W hat did her fath e r give her when
they were m arried?”
"H e gave her perm ission to retu rn
home a fte r three quarrels and sepa­
rations, but stipulated th a t a fte r more
th an three they would have to arran g a
th eir reconciliations elsew here."
Quite the Revert»
Patient - I can't afford to be sick.
Slieclallst—Is your business so prof­
itable?
Patient—No; yours Is.