Volume 2 — Our Rural Mail Box
Reading edition
Dear Bill—You may be witty, but the guy who wrote “Snowbound” was Whittier.
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Marjie—You naughty girl!
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Jo-Jo—You can call it Spanish onions or Spanish fly or any other old thing you want, old dear.
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Ted Mann—If your sweetheart likes music, even though your voice is poor, you can still sing to her with much feeling.
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Lonesome Jack—You ought to be able to get the inspiration you want on the beach at Miami or at Ocean Park and Redondo.
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Parliamentarian—The rules state that you put your hand up first and then ask the question.
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Shakespeareson—Don’t get hot under the collar. You ask us what we did with your poem entitled “An Ode to Oblivion.” Our reply is: It reached its destination.
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Revamping the Vamps
Exit the perfect 36!
Enter the perfect 34.
Dame Fashion is responsible.
Dressmakers have filled the New York papers’ want ad columns with calls for services of the 34 mannequins.
And still further they specify that she must be within the precincts of the misses’ “16.”
This is because grandmothers want to wear granddaughters’ clothes.
Specifications for the mannequins call for:
Symmetry.
Slenderness.
Small hips.
Slender biceps.
Trim ankles.
“Woman herself is responsible for the change,” says Miss Marion Rothschild, associate editor of “Women’s Wear.”
“For nearly three years the feminine population has been struggling to get into smaller and smaller clothing.
“Naturally they get what pleases them.”
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The Old Maid’s Lament
Love without the man, is like hell without heaven; I know for I’ve been there. If you don’t believe me, try it.
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Blood vs. Hootch
A Scotchman had been presented with a pint flask of rare old Scotch whiskey. He was walking briskly along the road toward home, when along came a Ford which he did not sidestep quite in time. It threw him down and hurt his leg quite badly. He got up and limped down the road. Suddenly he noticed that something warm and wet was trickling down his leg.
“Oh, God,” he groaned, “I hope that’s blood!”
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A Stew’s Lament
“George, I don’t believe you did put the cat out.”
“Well, if you think I’d tell a lie about a little thing like that, go and put her out yourself.”
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Sympathy
The harassed and weary-looking man, the personification of genteel poverty, paused before the windows which had been hired by the Humane Society.
In the center of the window was the picture of a large furry animal, with a woe-begone expression on its face.
Underneath was the placard: “I was skinned to provide a woman with fashionable furs.”
For a moment the tired expression faded from the man’s face.
“I know just how you feel, poor old chap!” he muttered. “So was I.”
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Excuse Me
A little boy in his nightdress was on his knees, saying his prayers, and his little sister could not resist the temptation to tickle his feet.
He stood it as long as he could, and then said: “Please, God, excuse me while I knock the devil out of Nellie.”
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Objection Sustained
A young lady has written the Navy Department asking that the styles in sailors’ uniforms be changed so that the girls will not be embarrassed.
“Every time I dance with a sailor, his loose, flappy trousers tickle my ankles and make me think my petticoat has fallen,” she complains.
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There Are Others
Here’s to those who’d love us If we only cared, Here’s to those we’d love If we only dared.
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You know the difference between a crab and a fish. Be a live fish, not a crab, because A live fish swims upstream and— A crab goes backward.
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Only six months to wait for the second October Whiz Bang annual.
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BATHING BEAUTIES!
Real photographs of the famous California Bathing Girls.
Just the thing for your den.
Size 3½ × 5½
Positively the best on the market.
Assortment of 6 for 25 cents or 25 for $1.00
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Foreign money not accepted unless exchange is included.
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Wholesale agents wanted everywhere in the U. S. Write for wholesale terms.
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Genuine Photographs
We are headquarters for photographs and pictures of all kinds, offering the most complete line in the country.
1 Catalogue “A” illustrating 500 nude, semi-nude and bathing girl subjects, by prepaid express, for $1.00; 6 for $5.00
1 Catalogue “B” illustrating 400 film star and bathing girl subjects, by mail, prepaid, for 25c; 5 for 1.00
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Everywhere!
Whiz Bang is on sale at all leading hotels, news stands, 25 cents single copies; on trains 30 cents, or may be ordered direct from the publisher at 25 cents single copies; two-fifty a year.
