DR COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume VI, Issue 8, 21 January 1905, Page 6 (Supplement)

DR COMMERCIAL TRAVELLERS.

irst Business Man: “I have hit upon ■apital way of dealing with commercial sellers.” cond Business Man: “Indeed, how do nanage?. •, well, I’ve got a. stair specially with a notice at the bottom, ‘Com--1 travellers this way’; then, when get to the top, they come upon another stair leading down, with a notice which says, ‘This way out.’ ” FOR A DOUBLE PURPOSE. A little girl came running into a diaper's shop, and, going up to one of the assistants, she said: “Please, my mudder wants to know if you have got any ribbon red one side ahd black the other?” Ihe assistant inquired of her what it was lor. She said: “My mudder wants to trim my hat with red ribbon for me to go to a party to-night, and my fadder is very ill and not expected to live, and if he should die my mudder don’t want- to have to go to the expense of buying new.” . A r CHANCE FOR ALL OF THEM. The new minister had been to Tommy’s father’s for breakfast, and afterwards the following was related to one of his -friends: Tom: He ate seven biscuits, a beefsteak, an’ a fried chicken, an’ drinked four cups of coffee. Friend: What did he say to yer? Tom: He ast me if I would like to be a hangel, so I said, ‘Well, if you stay much longer, and yer appetite holds out, I fancy we’ll all have to bo hangels.”