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Dolly was just home after her first day at school. "Well, darling," asked her mother, "what did they teach you?"
"Not much," replied the child. "I've got to go again."
"Dear teacher," wrote an indignant mother, "you must not whack my Tommy. He is a delicate child and isn't used to it. At home we never hit him except in self-defense."
"Mother, was that policeman ever a baby?"
"Yes, dear."
"Oh, Mother, I'd love to see a baby policeman!"
"William," said the Sunday-school teacher, "can you tell me what we must do before we can expect forgivenesss of sin?"
"Yes, sir," replied the boy. "We must sin."
"I'm afraid I'll have to raise your rent."
"I wish you would; I'm sure I can't raise it."
Doctor (Examining an East Side brunette): "You've got acute appendicitis."
Patient: "Don't get fresh with me! I came here for a medical diagnosis, not compliments about my body parts."
The ideal marriage is when a man finds a beautiful girl and a good housewife, said a philosopher.
We thought that was bigamy.
What are the best ten years of a woman's life?
Between 28 and 30.
A golf professional, hired by a big department store to give golf lessons, was approached by two women. "Do you wish to learn to play golf, madam?" he asked one.
"Oh, no," she said, "it's my friend who wants to learn. I learned yesterday."
I have acquired the notion that war has lost what you might call its charm, the peculiar fascination that it had up till about 50 years ago.
In those good old days, war was the greatest of open-air sports. The life was free and lots of fun, the food good.
Any danger of a bomb from the air" Good heavens, no! never dreamed of. Any fear of being blown up at night by a submarine? Good Lord, no!
Any danger of anything? Not till we get to the scene of the war. When do we get there? Oh, in about six months.
Danger in the old wars never came till you were ready for it, and it was over in no time.
The armies always laid off for winter, and always took time off for saints' days, holidays, and generals' birthdays on both sides.
They stopped for wet weather, muddy weather, or when there was too much static in the air. A campaign lasted as a rule all summer with a battle once a month.
As to danger of death, the open life was so superior to sedentary work at home that it was on the whole safer to be at war.
England lost, in 22 years of war with France, only 100,000 soldiers; about 5,000 a year. About half of these died of fever.
About half of these died of fever without anyb attles at all. Apart from fever, the mortality at home was far greater.
Gradually the thing began to get spoiled. New weapons were invented which were really dangerous to handle. New weapons were invented which were really dangerous to handle.
The American Civil War was the real turning point, the last of the heroic age of war. The Americans, as usual, took hold of a good thing, improved it, and spoiled it.
They got busy inventing iron-clad warships, submarines, trench mortars, and heaven knows what.
Then came the war of the Machine Age, the war of gases, bombs, depth charges: where personal valour is of no avail: where right does not conquer: where the weak go down: where the Mass Production of Death reaps its wholesale harvest.
No, it won't do. All people are sick of it. War's finished. It's too dangerous!
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