GOOD SPORTSIUIA]ISH I P

Friends

Ain't it fine when things are going Topsy-turvy and askew

To discover someone showing Good old-fashioned faith in you?

Ain't it good when life seems dreary And your hopes about to end Just to feel the handclasp cheery Of a fine old loyal friend?

Gosh ! one fellow to another Means a lot from day to day, Seems we're living for each other In a friendly sort of waY.

When a smile or cheerful greetin' Means so much to fellows sore, Seems we ought to keep rePeatin' Smiles and praises more and more

-Eddie Guest

Arrogont fVlon

Man is arrogant in proportion to his ignorance. Man's natural tendency is toward egotism. Man, in his infancy of knowledge, thinks that all creation was formed for him. For several ages he saw, in the countless worlds that sparkle through space like the bubbtes of a shoreless ocean' only the petty candles, the household torches, that Providence had been pleased to light for no other purpose but to make the night more agreeable to man.

Astronomy has corrected this delusion of human vanity, and man now reluctantly confesses that the stars are worlds, larger and more glorious than his own-that the earth on which he crawls is a scarcely visible speck on the vast chart of creation.

But in the small as in the vast, God is equally profuse of life. The traveler looks upon the tree and fancies its boughs were formed for his shelter in the summer sun, or his fuel in the winter frosts. But in. each leaf of these boughs the creator has made a world-it swarms with innumerable races. Each drop of water in a moat is mo:e populous than a kingdom is of men. Ever5rwhere then in this immense design, science brings new life to light. Life is the one pervading principle, and even the thing that seems to die and putrify, but engenders new life, and charlges to fresh forms of matter. '

-Bulwer Lytton

And Buy A Gun

A Cockney couple visited a picture gallery and stood for some time gazing at a picture entitled "Hawking in the olden days."

"Well," said the przzled'Enry, himself a hawkster on the streets of London, "they didn't arf do-my word'orseback and all !"

"Rather," agreed 'Arriet, "but wot are they 'awking?"

"Blowed if f know," responded 'Enry. "unless they're tryin' to sell their blinkin parrots."

Friends On The Shelf

Granting that we had both the will and sense to choose our friends well, how few of us have that power.. Yet there is a society continually open to us, waiting all day long, king and statesmen, on our book shelves.-Ruskin

Just Her Shode

"Liza," said the young white woman to her rather new colored maid, "where is that tar soap I sent you -to the drugstore for yesterday?"

"Mah goodness, Missie !" exclaimed the surprised colored girl. "Whut's a blond lady like you gwine do wid dat tah soap? Ah thought you had me get hit for my pussonal use."

Not Come-Went

"Ah suttinly is gwine whip dat no-count boy o'mine when Ah gits mah han's on him."

"How come?"

"He done lef' de chicking coop do' open and dem chickings all got out."

"We11, they'll come home to roost, won't they?"

"COME home? Whut you mean, fool? Dem chickings WENT home."

Not Free Surely?

Qssfqs-"1\l[ah poppa is de mos' high Gran' Panjandrum of de Lodge o' de Mistick Nights.

Hambone-"Lawdy me, boy! Whut do it cost to see him?"

She Mighr

"Could I interest you in d one-piece bathing suit?" asked the good-looking blond saleslady of the gentleman shopper.

"I really couldn't say," replied the gentleman shopper, rather blase; "you see I've never seen you in a one-piece bathing suit."