BRIGHT SAYINGS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 225, 22 September 1928, Page 9 (Supplement)

BRIGHT SAYINGS.

FROM THE AMERICAN PRESS.

British physicians now claim that crying is good for one's complexion, provided, of course, that one's complexion is one's complexion.—-"Detroit News." Among the workers for the Izaak Walton League are some of our most prominent church officials. Possibly hoping to develop a fish that won't bite on Sunday.—"Council Bluffs Nonpareil." The new Oxford Dictionary has 414,825 words. This includes all the known words in the English language, except the ones used by baseball writers. — "Rochester Democrat and Chronicle." ,©ne of Rockefeller's daughters has just lost a. 7,000,000-dollar suit. Women's clothes cost something awful. can Lumberman" (Chicago). Chicago has inaugurated a clean-up movement, and robbery figures for the week show that the bandits are doing their share.— York Evening Post." Chicago florists do a business of 16,000,000 dollars a year, but of course some of the flowers are used for weddings.—"San Diego Union."

When a woman driver sticks cut her hand you know she's thinking of doing something.—''Council Bluffs Nonpareil." Missionaries can explain their religion. The hard part is to explain their civilisation. —"Muskogee Phoenix." Romance to-day, says an observer, is just necking. Shall we call it neckromancy?—'Hew York Evening Poßt." We have our moments of depression when we actually dread the coming of the brotherhood of man, on account of some of the brethren we shall have to go around with.—''Ohio State Journal." The best reducing exercise consists in moving the head from left to right when asked to have some more. Eagle." The world's star salesman would be the man who could secure Mussolini's subscription to a success magazine.— "Louisville Times." There isn't really a war between Japan and China, which is quite a joke on the folks that have been killed so far. — "Dallas News." Deadly gas floating over a city in time of peace may do more to abolish war than a cloud of treaties.—'"Boston Transcript."