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thousand more ... I bet my associate two grand that you'd turn me down."

112. Husband: "Darling, don't you think you're being a wee bit extravagant? You've had four electric fans running all day."

Bride: "Don't worry about it, dearest. They're not our fans; I borrowed them from the neighbors."

113. A fellow was endeavoring to borrow some money from a friend. The friend wanted to know why he didn't use his own money, and the fellow explained that everything he had was in a joint account. '~But you can draw money from a joint account," volunteered his friend.

"Not this joint account," explained the financially destitute husband. "Our joint account is in the name of my wife and her mother."

Brevity

114. The cub reporter was told to keep his copy short and stick to the bare facts. Sent on his first accident story, he turned in this copy:

"S. White looked up the elevator shaft to see if the car was on its way down. It was. Age 45."

115. The lesson in newspaper work is constantly "Be brief!" If that order can be given picturesquely, so much the better and it will not be forgotten.

A certain beginner in journalism picked up in a southern town what seemed to him a "big story," He hurried to the telegraph office and queried the editor of his newspaper: "Column story on --, Shall I send?"

The answer arrived promptly: "Send 600 words."