ere no children in the family as yet,
she continued brightly:

"But won't you please send them when you do have them?"

* * *

The Sunday-school teacher examined his new class.

"Who made the world?" he demanded. Nobody seemed to know. He repeated
the question somewhat sternly. As the silence persisted, he frowned and
spoke with increased severity:

"Children, I must know who made the world!"

Then, at last, a small boy piped up in much agitation:

"Oh, sir, please, sir, it wasn't me!"

SUPERMAN

It is told of Mrs. Gladstone that a number of ladies in her drawing-room
once became engaged in earnest discussion of a difficult problem. It
chanced that at the time the great prime minister was in his study
upstairs. As the argument in the drawing-room became hopelessly
involved, a devout lady of the company took advantage of a lull to say:

"Ah, well, there is One above Who knows it all."

Mrs. Gladstone beamed.

"Yes," she said proudly. "And William will be down directly to tell us
all about it."

SUPERSTITION

The superstitious sporting editor of the paper condemned the "Horse
Fair" by Rosa Bonheur.

"Just look at those white horses!" he exclaimed disgustedly. "And not a
red-headed girl in sight."

SUSPENSE

The passionate lover wrote to his inamorata as follows:

"Adored of my soul:--If you love me, wear a red rose in your corsage
to-night at the opera. If my devotion to you is hopeless, wear a white
rose."

She wore a yellow rose.

SUSPICION

The eminent politicians of opposing parties met on a train, and during
their chat discovered that they agreed concerning primaries.

"It is the first time," said one, "that we have ever agreed on a matter
of public policy."

"That is so," the other assented. "The fact leads me to suspect that I
am wrong, after all in this matter of the primaries."

SYMPATHY

A tramp devised a new scheme for working on the sympathy of the
housewife. After ringing the front door bell, he got on his knees, and
began nibbling at the grass of the lawn. Presently the woman opened the
door, and, in surprise at sight of him on all fours, asked what he was
doing there.

The tramp got to his feet shakily, and made an eloquent clutch at his
stomach as he explained:

"Dear madam, I am so hungry that like Nebuchadnezzar I just had to take
to eatin' grass."

"Well, well, now ain't that too bad!" the woman cried. "You go righ