Mistakes Rooster's Call for His Wife

1920

Thinks Fowl's Crowing Is Her Call to Dinner -- Bing!

LOS ANGELES, Cal. -- Because Hoaglund of Venice is a bit hard of hearing he faced a judge for disturbing the peace -- and there was no roast chicken dinner in the Hoaglund home.

He was spading in the garden. The rooster crowed. Hoaglund dropped his tools and went home for lunch. Mrs. Hoaglund said she hadn't called him. Then she did call him -- many things.

Arraigned before Recorder W. W. Rennie, after the battle, he explained the matter and Mrs. Hoaglund was appeased.

--The Saturday Blade, Chicago, March 27, 1920, page 9.


Irishman Couldn't Even Detect Green

CINCINNATI, Ohio -- An Irishman who can't tell green when he sees it was rejected for enlistment in the U. S. Marine Corps here for defective color vision.

James Patrick O'Hara, born in the County Cork, insisted on picking brown skeins of yarn when told to select the green ones.

"What color is grass," ventured the examiner, "isn't that green?"

"No," replied the color-blind Irishman, "its color is not green; people call it green because is young and tender, but its color is brown."

--The Saturday Blade, Chicago, March 27, 1920, page 10.