ODDS AND ENDS.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 643, 21 June 1921, Page 5

ODDS AND ENDS.

The cold facts are sometimes responsible for warm language. That some men who marry because they are homeless, are home-less than ever after they get tied up. That capital is money that belongs to the other fellow.

That if bakers didn’t use self-rais-ing flour the price of bread might come down a bit. That there is no connection between the rise in the price of bread and the trouble in the Near (Y) east. That what the boys like about eggs and. kisses is that both are nicest when poached. That lady golfers will have a hundred excuses >for bad play, while a man is “settled” with one lie--and that a bad one. That a local resident who recently bought ’a piano found several notes under the keys. That a “young hopeful” in this district, asked by his teacher to write a sentence showing the use of the word “among” wrote: “Our dog is a mong,”

That the worst of the new “thruppny” bits is the unmistakeable clatter they make in, the collection plates. That a medical authority says that bank notes should always be kept in a leather wallet. That we have tried keeping them there, but our creditors won’t let us.

That so far from the modern girl screaming at a mouse nowadays, nobody would be surprised .to hear that it is the other way about. That the current definition of an optimist is: The man who thinks he will pay less taxes next year.

That the pessimist ?s he who thinks he will have no money with which to meet next year’s demands.

That another definition of a pessimist is a man who wears a belt in addition to a pair of braces.