Airman Jones was assigned to the induction center, where he advised new recruits about their government benefits, especially their GI insurance. It wasn't long before Captain Smith noticed that Airman Jones was having a staggeringly high success-rate, selling insurance to nearly 100% of the recruit

Benedict's Scrapbook tells of a publisher who offered a prize for the best answer to the question, "Why is a newspaper like a good woman?" The winning answer was this. "It's like a good woman, because every man should have one of his own and not look at his neighbor's!"

If you think issues of uncleanness are limited to the ancient world, consider this cover story headline last year from an issue of U.S. News World Report: "The Future of Water: Costly - Dirty - Scarce." The article began with an account of dirty water in Atlanta, where in some neighborhoods it

Paul's use of the language of submission and authority…may cause some readers to bristle. Our culture sees submission as a form of oppression. Submission, though, does not imply inferiority, nor is it inconsistent with a relationship of equality. Christ practiced submission to the Father d

A guest at a hotel was in a hurry to check out when he realized he did not have his briefcase. He went to the bellboy and said, "Would you please hurry to room 1203? I think I left my briefcase there. My limo for the airport leaves in six minutes, so please hurry." The man checked out, and after a f

A mother and a daughter are shopping in the mall, when the mother eyes an expensive fur coat. "This year," she says, "I think that I will buy my present instead of making you and dad shop for me." The daughter nods in agreement. "And I think this fur coat would be perfect too." The daughter protes

A Reader's Digest article, "Hard Truths About Day Care," concludes: "What the very young want, and urgently need, child-development experts agree, is not education or socialization, but the affection and unhurried attention of their parents. The deepest problem with paid child-rearing is that someon

Need Glasses? "Wouldn't you hate to wear glasses all the time?" asked a small boy of his playmate. "No-o-o," the other boy answered slowly, "not if I had the kind grandma wears. She sees how to fix a lot of things, and she sees lots of nice things to do on rainy days, and she sees when folks are ti

A woman accompanied her husband to the doctor's office. After his checkup, the doctor called the wife into his office alone. He said, "Your husband is suffering from a major disease, complicated by great stress. If you don't do the following your husband will surely die. "Each morning, fix him a he