BY-THE-WAY.
"WHAT. IS A CHAPEEONE?" The fallowing proves beyond douibt that the Hutt youth is every whit as modern- as his contemporary the world over. Lad of some sixteen years, looking up from a book he is perusing and addressing Ms brother: "I say, Bill, what is a chaperone?". Then, as the result of a brain-wave: '' Aw, I know. It's a miisieail instrument, isn't it?" GUIDE HONOUR. A ioeal mother was recently infinitely pained to »hear her small daughter using language which one would scarcely expect to hear from the mouth of a zealous '' Guider. 'f However j the parental forgiveness was assured if the small offender promised "on your honour, '' not to repeat the offence. There' was some hesitancy before the response came, and when it did, there was a compromise attached. - Apparently there are degrees of honour, for the small miscreant was willing to pledge ' "her" honour but '/not my* Guide hon* our, mummie!" - —
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HN19300619.2.3.6
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 4, 19 June 1930, Page 2
Word count
Tapeke kupu
156BY-THE-WAY. Hutt News, Volume 3, Issue 4, 19 June 1930, Page 2
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hutt News. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in