DID NOT UNDERSTAND.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 122, 17 December 1915, Page 3 (Supplement)

DID NOT UNDERSTAND.

Doctors who are in tiio habit of using long words when vwiting people may take a hint from the following little story. An old woman whose husband was not very well sent for the doctor, who came and saw the old man. When he was departing he said to Uie old man's wife;— " I will send him some medicine, which must he taken in a recumbent position." After ho had gone the old woman tat down, greatly puzzled. " A recumbent position—a recumbent position!" she - kept repeating. " 1 naven't got one.'' At last she thought, "I will go and seo if Nurse Lown has got one to lend me." Accordingly she went and said to the uurae;— " Have you got a recumbent position to lend me to take some medicine in ?" Tho nurse, who was equally a a equally as ignorant as the old woman, replied;— "I had one but, to tell you the truth, I. have lost it."

TOMMY'S SONtifc. According to the Nov. \Y. 1,. Stephen. M.A., who lias recently visited tho Y.M (.'.A. centres in I'ranee, the soldiers' favourite songs arc, 11 When Irish Eves are Smiling," " Keep the Homo Eire;, Burning," llcre We Are, Hero We Are Again," and "A Little ( li'ld Shall Lead Thorn.'" The ilioiuj of t,b« hitter w;is generally sung with peculiar heart iness by I lie married men. There was, lie says, extrqordin ary talent in Kitcliener's Army, and there was never any difficulty in getting a pianist. At the Sunday evening services the favourite hymns were "Etexnal Father, Strong to Save," '"Hock uf Ages," "U (iod. Our Help in Ages Puttj' aud "Ttw Old Ujie Hundredth."