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This to the enthusiastic correspondent was depressing.

"Can't be told in less than 1,200," he wired back.

Then came this reply: "Story of creation of world told in

600. Try it."

Business

116. An executive who is a great believer in efficiency hung up a sign in his office one day last week. It read: "Do it now,"

Within 24 hours, the cashier bolted with the contents of the safe, his stenographer eloped with his eldest son, the office boy threw the ink bottle into the electric fan, and the whole office force took the afternoon off.

117. A man walked into a dress shop and asked the proprietor how business was.

"Terrible!" he complained. "It's so bad, why I only sold one dress yesterday. And today it's even worse."

"How could it be worse?" asked his friend.

"Today she returned the dress she bought yesterday," wailed the proprietor.

118. A candy store operator was bemoaning the sad fate that had overtaken him. "I was a hard-working clerk, earning a mere ten dollars a week," he told his clergyman, "when, like so many ill-advised young men, I fell in with shady characters and felt compelled to gamble."

"Ah," sympathized the cleric, "and the temptation cost you all your hard-accumulated savings!"

"No," said the man. "I won-and like a damned fool bought this lousy candy store."