The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, February 11, 1927 Page: 4 of 4
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THE (10SS DRUG STORE
EAST SIDE SQUARE—PHONE 36
—FAMOUS FOR THEIR VALUES-
We appreciate your trade and want to be of more service to you.
HOLT'S DRUG STORE
PHONE 71—NORTH SIDE SQUARE
"AINT WE GOT PHUN?'
That intangible something
which1 brings a cheerful expression
to the face is all powerful. The
child reads the "funny paper" and
rejoices in the triumph of its spe-
cial hero. The boys just starting
out in the fifth grade is influenc-
ed by the "tramp jokes" or the
comic strips. Later on we run
across an age that reads "Uncle
Billy's Whiz Bang." This is not
the best of literature, yet it holds
a place in influencing the youth of
our country. Later, on a certain
age delights in the newspaper-and
Literary Digest type of humor.
■ Have you e.ver stopped to think
how big a part such words as joy,
happiness, delight, gladess and
others play in our daily activities ?
From the cradle, or crawling per-
iod, to the end of our understand-
ing, laughter is always considered
essential. What causes laughter
unless it be some form of humor?
A laugh will relieve an embarras-
Special Notice to Our
Customers
Delivery for week days will be
8:30 a. m., 10:30 a. m., 3:00 p. m„
5,-00 p. m. .
Saturdays, 3:00, 4:00, and 5:30 p.
m.
Closed on Sundays
ALLEN'S MARKET
. /
State Champions
We are for you—On Ye Tarleton
Clark's Feed Store
If its in the line of
GROCERIES;
We Have It
HUDGENS
& HICKEY
Phone 16
DR. J. S. DANIEL
LICENSED OPTOMETRIST
Eyes Tested—Glasses Fitted
Next to Farmers First Natl. Bank
First Class Service
McMAHAN & HOLLEY
BARBERS
Dr. W. D. Turner
EXCLUSIVE OPTOMETRIST
Satisfaction Guaranteed—Lens
Changed
Over Stephenville State Bank
ROCK BARN—SERVICE CARS
All Brand New
With or Without Drivers
Night and Day—Never Close
Gas and Oil, Storage, Trunk Hauling
GRUNDY FENNER
PHONE 7
CLOSE—CONVENIENT .
College Barber
Shop
GOOD WORK
We Appreciate Your Trade
ROY M. POINTER, Proprietor
sing situation, while a frown sel-
dom ever puts a damper on laugh-
ter. A grin will end a serious
thread of thought before you can
say "Jack Robinson" backwards.
A king in the midst of formalities
must laugh sometimes. The Am-
erican biographer takes pleasure
in telling us how our presidents
are influenced1 by a witty influence
in civilization—unless it be onions
or fried pork.
Mark Twain was, indeed, a hum-
orist of the first waters. He
makes himself ridiculous. You
pity him one minute and laugh at
him the next minute. What could
delight a person more than his ac-
count of a "date." He borrowed
a horse that had just been taken
off of a milk route. The tragedy
of the horse's stopping at every
house on each side of the street
just shows the frank and carefree
method of climax to American hu-
mor.
Have you heard the story of the
two Irishmen. Just how many
times I have been asked that I can-
not figure out. Go to Ireland', my
friend, and hear "The Story of The
Two Americans!"
Grins, actions and "peals of
laughter" are the favorite ways of
expressing humor. A tomato
might hit you just to express hum-
or, or the landlady may feed you
salmon just to express humor. You
can see expressions of humor all
around you—especially when a
"Fish" in college thinks he has_
sense enough to write about hum-
or.
grandmother or Aunt Susan. You
get into the entrance and giggle.
Then you resume your company
(company A & B) manners and
open the door quickly. You look
all around and see a row of officers
then—oh then is when you've sim-
ply got to play your part. You turn
your head a little, but not too much
or you will attract attention, and
walk down the aisle' like you were
worth a million. You breathe
once, adjust yourself, and eat pop-
corn- to add to your pleasure—also
to the pleasure of those who sit
near yoli. You start out after the
show is over, and one blond officer
starts out at the same time. He
goes up town and you breathe—
breathe—breathe. You run all
the way home—too happy to eat,
drink, or do anything except sleep
and dream!
A PAGE FROM LIFE'S OTHER
SIDE
ON GOING TO THE PICTURE
SHOW WITHOUT A PERMIT
Maybe you live o Tarleton Ave-
nue or maybe you don't! Most
probably you don't. You try to
get your mama to go to the show
with you and she won't. You try
to (get your dad to take you and
he won't. So you get with one of
your best pals and "frame up,"
'cause you're simply crazy to see
Richard Barthelmess or Krazy Kat
as the case might be. Your girl
friend enters into the plan whole
hearted'ly, and even offers to fur-
•nish extra money for some popcorn
and peanuts which add so much to
your pleasure and also to those
who fortunately (?) sit near you.
You decide you had better not let
your respective families know of
your plans as good as they seem,
so you go all over the neighbor-
hood borrowing coats, hats, dress-
es, shoes and even horned rimmed
glasses which are not glasses but
frames! You spend an hour
"making up," and after you've don-
ned the specs, pulled that hat down
over your face at such and such
an angle, and put talcum in your
pals hair to make her look like
your grandmother, you start bold-
ly down the street. Tarleton Ave-
nue looks brighter than usual to
you, but you decide if you were to
happen to get caught up with it
would be better to be on Tarleton
Avenue than off. Every time you
see an officer your heart comes up
in your mouth and you squeeze
your friend's hand so hard that
tears (whether from pain or from
fright I am not able to say) roll
down her cheeks, for if the pres-
sure didn't hurt the fact that she
had "almost too many demerits"
did! The officers pass on and you
pat yourself on the back. When
you get to that electric light office
down there by the picture show,
(you know?) you stop, detect no
one, then rush frantically up to
the ticket office and say "Please
ma'am, tickets for two," looking
over your specs and frowning as
you count your change. You ably
assist your girl friend who is your
If a burglar steals your money from our
bank WE are responsible. If he steals
it from your house YOU are responsible.
THE FIRST STATE BANK
STEPHENVILLE, TEXAS
It happened not long ago,
This is the manner thus:
Looking at the Library door,
I saw two hands out-thrust.
He held her'n; and' she held his'n—
Enraptured I'm sure.
For she was, and dizzy
At affection so pure,
^ I
In the shadow of the fat one,
Across the table from he,
Sat an exquisite thing, artistically
done;
Prettier than pretty could be.
He held her hand tight and easy,
And turned it loose to re-seize.
He looked at the little 'un breezy,
But-she looked back fit to freeze.
(To be continued)
TWO PARODIES
By Blanche E. Case
Rolled' Hosiery
The'knees I've seen this year, dear
one,
Are, as a picture, fair, to me;
I look them over, noting many a
run
In hosiery, in hosiery.
Some knees are fat, again, they're
thin;
While some ai?e brown, and oth-
ers pink;
But when they're bowed they look
like sin—
They should not show, I think.
Oh, styles of old, for thee I yearn;
Of stockings, rolled, I now make
moan;
I blush for shame and strive, at
last, to learn,
To roll my own, dear one
To—roll—my—own.
Bern: "A horse just skidded
around that corner!"
Tucker: "But I didn't think
horses had tires."
Bern: "But this one was tired."
ANTIDOTE
One time an old rustic came to
town. He stopped his carriage in
front of the first drug store that
he came to. The old man jumped
from his carriage, removed one of
the doors and took it into the
drug store.
The druggist, very astonished,
said, "but man this is not a car-
penter shop, but a drug store."
"I know that, but my wife is
very sick and as we didn't have
pencil or paper in the house the
doctor wrote the prescription on
the door with chalk.
"I wish I wuz a little rock,
A-sittin' on a bill;
Doin' nothin' all day long
But just a-sittin' still;
I wouldn't walk, I wouldn't
talk,
I wouldn't even wash;
I'd just sit ten thousand;
years,
An' rest myself, B' Gosh!"
"Our idea of a real collegiately
dressed fellow is one who has to taka
two steps before his pants move."
L C.SLAUGHTER2 GROCERIES
Phone 97
FOR PICNIC AND PARTY LUNCHES
East Side of the Square
I've got
a half-nelson
•
on j immy
pipe joy
Z
1 TOOK P. A. for bettef worse # « « and
found it better! Better than anything I had
ever smoked. That's my story and I'm going
to stick to it. When siren-brands try to flirt, I
just give them the Frigidstaire. I know what I
like in a pipe, and what I like is Prince Albert!
The instant you break the seal on the tidy red
tin and get that wonderful fragrance of real
tobacco, you know you are in for a pipe-treat.
Your mouth fairly waters for a taste of tobacco
that smells as good as that* Then you load up
and light up—ah! , . .
Cool. Sweet. Fragrant. Old words, I'll ad-
mit, but you get a brand-new idea of how much
they can mean in a pipe-bowl packed with P. A.
Maybe you've always thought such pipe-plea-
sure was "just around the corner." Try a load
off Prince Albert and turn that corner!
ft
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A* is sold everywhere in
tidy red tins j pound and hatf-
pound tin humidor9p and
pound crystal-glass humidors
with spartge-moistener top.
And always with every pie
of bite and parch removed by
the Prince Albert process.
•no other tobacco, is like it!
Reynolds Tobacco
Company, Winston-Salem, N. C.
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The J-TAC (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 18, Ed. 1 Friday, February 11, 1927, newspaper, February 11, 1927; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth139980/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Tarleton State University.