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THE ATLANTIAN
July, 1918
Only One Way To
Acquire a Competence
For most people there is but ONE way to acquire a
competence; that is the sure way of SAVING MONEY.
With one dollar you can open an account with our Savings
Department. Your money deposited here will earn more
money at the rate of 3j4 per cent interest, compounded
semi-annually. Persistent saving will give you the neces
sary start in business, or pay the first installment on a 'home,
or insure for you and your family comfort and independence
during old age. The following table shows how fast $5.00
a month deposited here will grow:
1 year ..... $ 61.06 3 year* — $189.71
2 years 12426 5 years 327.60
Fulton National Bank
Atlanta, Ga.
WILLIAM J. BLALOCK, President
ARTHUR B. SIMMS, Vice President.
£ BOLLING H. JONES, Vice President
HENRY B. KENNEDY, Cashier.
RYBURN G. CLAY, Assistant Cashier.
THE OLD JOB.
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ROUGH SHOD.
MISUNDERSTOOD.
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Feminine Voice Over Phone—Hello,
are you Harry?
Masculine Voice—No t especially,
lady, but I’m far from bald.—Tiger.
The War Lady—Will you show mt
to the underclothing department,
please?
The shopwalker—Certainly; er—
men’s or women’s ?—Passing Show
(London).
TOO AWFUL—NOWADAYS.
Paterfamilias—What’s that noise,
my dear?—(suddenly stricken with
panic)—Surely the cat can’t have got
into the larder 1—London Opinion.
THE TENDEREST PART.
“Although I was late,” said the new
boarder, “I found the landlady had
saved for me the tenderest part of the
chicken.”
“What was that?” asked the old
boarder, jealously.
“Some of the gravy.”—Pearson’s
Weekly.
WAR TIME LOGIC.
“Gimme a dollar’s worth of steak,”
said the customer.
The butcher wrapped it up.
“How much?” askedi the customer.
“Four dollars and ninety cents,”
sai ’dthe butcher.—Buffalo Express.
PARTIALITY.
Customer—Here, waiter, what is
this shoe string doing in my soup?
Waiter—Please lower your voice,
sir. Don’t let that gtntleman at the
next table
THEN SHE GOT MAD.
"John,” caid Mrs. Dubwaite, “I see
where another man has been esphxx-
iated in his garage.”
“Well, my dear?”
“The next time you have any work
to do on your car I'll insist on going
with you.”
“It’s kind of you to be willing to
die with me, my love, but who will
look after the children..—Birmingham
Age-Herald.
AND WOMAN.
“To be happy a man needs a won
derful digestion and a woman needs
beautiful attire.” ,
“Yes,” commented Miss Cayenne;
“one wants the stomach of an ostrich
and the other wants the feathers.”—
Washington Star.
BECAUSE.
“You know, I think the day the
prodigal son came back must havt
ben an awfully slippery one.”
“Why so?”
“Because the Bible says that when
his father came out to welcome him,
he fel Ion his neck.”—Awgwan.
paper): Here's an account of an
Englishwoman who has sen her four
husbands to the front and lost them
all.
Pardee—Does the account say the
lady has resumed recruiting?—Tit-
Bits.
HER THEORY.
“So you think that long hair makes
a man look interesting and impres
sive?”
“Yes',” replied Miss Pepper. “I sus
pect that hair was provided by nature
to divert attention from the fact that
a man is a bonehead.”—'Washington
Star.
Although in Babylon of old
Dime novels were unknown,
The youth of Babylon, I’m told,
Made countless parents moan.
’Twas horrible, they way they’d act!
They’d swear—and run away. . .
Those brats were just as bad, in fact,
As ch'ldren art today!
Ere London-town das struck its
stride,
Nine hundred years ago,
No Londoner had been inside
A moving-picture show;
And yet the little London child
At naughtiness could shine I
He was as wayward and as wild
As yours, or even mine!
many employed in the manufacture
of wooden soles.—Amsterdam Cable
The biggest firm of all, Hohenzol-
lern & Co., has been busy for more
than forty years making wooden
souls for all Germany.
GARDEN THEIR RIGHTS.
You may not believe it, but bills
for an increase of pensions are be
fore Congress in behalf of Cain and
Abel. Their front names are respec
tively William T. and Alfred L.
MORE TRUTH THAN POETRY.
Smile and the Hun scowls at you,
Joke—.‘.’s a Teuton sin,
For sad old Fritz, with his lung-
drawn snitch.
Can’t learn to fight with a grin.
HUNNISH STUFF.
The Fuel Administration and the
War Industries Board are consider
ing the elmnaton of the so-called
comic supplement from Sunday news
papers.—Wash'ngton News Item.
And the 'first to go should be those
supplements which exploit the slap
stick cruelties of “The Katzenjammer
Kids.” They are vicious, vulgar, un-
American. '
“You old rounder.; youv’e been out
with Medusa again I I found a snake
on your shoulder.”-4jester.
French Millinery Co.
We are now ready to show you our beau
tiful line of
Mid Summer Millinery
We have also added to our Millinery, a
pretty line of Shirt Waists, Skirts, Suits
and Coats, Hosiery, Corsets, Gloves, Hand
kerchiefs, etc., and will be glad to have you
call and look through.
Your charge account is solicited.
We thank you for past patronage and
solicit your future business. Hurry back.
French Millinery Co.
392 Edgewood Avenue—Corner Boulevard
Mrs. LIZZIE WAITS FRENCH, Mgr.
Phone Ivy 1391 L.