Iowa Wesleyan College - Croaker Yearbook (Mount Pleasant, IA)

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The most reliable and latest styles in jeu)elry can be bought at BAUMLE - ANDERSON CO. JEWELERS 319 Jefferson St. Burlington, Iowa A visitor at Hollywood met an old friend, now a movie director, who invited him to visit the studio stating that during the next afternoon they expected to film a nude woman riding a horse down the boulevard. “Sure, 1 11 come,” said the friend; “it’s a long time since I saw a horse.” Adam: “Wonderful night, a beautiful girl—what a combination!” Eve: “Goodness! ! Is that showing?” (iirl: “Why did you kiss me—when you are a perfect stranger?” Hoy: “It’s the doctor’s orders. He says I must avoid all excitement, and it excited me to sit beside the most beautiful creature I have ever seen and not kiss her. Girl: “Well, of course if it’s the doctor’s orders I suppose it’s all right.” O’SHEA KNITTING MILLS MAKERS OF Athletic Knitted Wear for Every Sport 241-1-24 North Sacramento Avenue CHICAGO Page 219

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Impossible A man was seen standing before a billboard in Toronto shouting: “It can't be done! It can’t be done!” “What can’t be done?” inquired an inquisitive spectator. The man dumbly pointed to a sign, which read: “DRINK CANADA DRY” Where Ignorance Is Bliss Dora was so dumb that she thought that— An echo is merely a hole in the wind. A normal school is where they teach normalcy. An Aspirin tablet is something to write on. A grid leak is a rainstorm on a football field. A fire plug is a new kind of chew. A mixed metaphor is some kind of cocktail. The Farm Bureau is a piece of furniture. Rebate means to put on a fresh worm. I lie Kentucky Derby is a southern hat. The Board of Kducation hangs out in the lumber yard. The weather bureau is part of a bedroom set. Lansing. Mich., is a major operation. Marcelled hair is a new way to cook rabbit. Davenport, la., is a sheik’s workbench. A march can be played on the ear drums. Chilling Thought “Speaking of bathing in famous springs,” remarked the tramp, “that reminds me that I bathed in the spring of ’98.” Both Dumb She: “The Lord made us beautiful and dumb.” It: “How’s that?” She: “Beautiful so men would love us—and dumb so that we could love them.” Page 21S

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Dennis J.: “Girls of today art not willing to get married.” “Mid” W.: “Maybe that’s because it is you who arc asking them.” Lissen: “Marie was taken home in a hurry from the banquet last night.” Hurja: “What was it—acute indigestion?” Lissen: “No—a cute salesman from Pittsburgh.” “I’ll give Reggie credit for getting me a nice engagement ring. I understand that’s what the jeweler did too.” “They never walk back when I take ’em out. brags the local undertaker. “Lay off the rice pudding,” said the old boarder to the new boarder; There was a wedding next door yesterday.” The only thing a girl can do about an unattractive knee these days is to grin and bare it. Here’s to the blonde—we love her henna-way. Believe in Signs? Sign outside roadside restaurant: EAT HERE DIET HOME He was a big collar and cuff man from Troy, X. V., but she soon took the starch out of him. Page 220