WILLING TO OBLIGE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 122, 17 December 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

WILLING TO OBLIGE.

Te investigators whose names a in tlie newspapers in connection) ltontgen-ray experiments are a deal bothered by applications peopie who imagine tney have b or other unpleasant foreign subst in various parte of their anatomy story goes f hat not long ago a it scientist received tne tollowing i from Sheffield:—

Dear Sir,—l have had a bullel my thorax for seven years. 1 too busy to come down here 4 find the bullet, as lam sure case is worth your while. 11 can't como yourself, send your paratus, and I will get one of doctors here to uso it. truly—. Here is the doctors reply?— Dear Sir,-—Scry sorry X can! find time to visit you ; nor wi be abie to slend my apparatus, you can't come to London yc self, send me your thorax by pre6s, and 1 will do the best 1 < with it—Yours truly • And there the correspondence c

LIVE AND LEARN. .] With a sleepy yawn the guest J had arrived at the hotel on the i ious night, limped into the diningfor breakfast. 4 He did his beet with the bacqfl tomatoes, but gave in at last, a&dj to sleep on a sofa in a corner o room. When he awoke he fount hotel proprietor standing near, lw at him curiously. "Didn't you get enough sleen

night?" , , l» '• Didn't I get enough sleep! r< ed the other, fitting up sudden though gal vanned into life. "Tc one thing —what on earth do you vonr mattre*6es with in this plac ' "Stuff 'em with? Why, the best straw it is possible to get 11 whole of the country!" " Ah, now 1 understand I ''Understand what?" "Whv, where that straw came that broke the camel's back."

NO DANGER. A burlv man, the picture of P< health and strength, walked mu office of a prominent accident i ance company the other day, wanted to be insured. " Are you engaged in any nazal business?" asked the secretary. " Not in the least," replied the 11 "Does your business make it I wiry for you to be without sle< night?" "No, sir." " Would your business ever re vou to be where there were ex crowds—for instance, at a not fire?"

"Never, sir.' ? "Does your business throw jc contact with the criminal classes,., " Good gracious! No, sir. "I think you are eligible. vour business?" "I am a policeman. " Training will dp much for JO btu it will not teach linn to loo* towel before he fills his eyes *>«» J It is nonsense to say a pan is inc to bo bald. When a man » bald it is quite agalliet hu JOCIUM