FAMILY JOKES.

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 80, 25 June 1927, Page 25

FAMILY JOKES.

THOSE OFT-TOLD TALES. A test of the everyday is the family Jokes. We all suffer from them. Those many-times-twice-told tales that come °ut whenever a guest puts his knees under your table and eats your bread and sait. And one of the most helpful ways to cnaare these tales is to realise that your family have to endure your favourite wheezes which have also, for mein, grown moss. When we have Kuests I know that ray brother Tom has to tell of how I got to Lonu°n, decided my hand-bag was 50 Pounds overweight and must discard u °]ne of my things, and how I then house” and tore up my mo<ion» 3 and my return tickets to Lona * so : if we have chicken—which I rZ *° avoid—he must say that he has eat' C » , d any meat as I always h..* i Now these mots have palled, Ul 1 sit pretty” because I know that or later—if the proper converieii « * ate °P en s just a crack—l will *nd ° • Tom—in pursuit of a bat a a j a broom as his weapon—hit t*ri?5 nae^er of the ornate crystal Ri» » nd w hat happened then. flv-iV Tom hasn’t heard that story And l S° usar >d times I am an Ethiopian, inv r • not * Whatever else, none of c Iri f nds can say that of me. it’sci you see * with a lot else in life—*rart? e ii an< * la^e * -And to take boredom >ou a return for the boredom da is only the sporting thing to T a I le . r *H. says Kathleen Haviiand LJin an English paper, family*l e r .matter which makes for be car.? 1 n t ‘ I,n ’ a . nt * t^iat * think should red avoided, is everyone’s pet fio-tli. i-. t mother’s is made by sugarest *.' aitc oen-floor; she is the smoothon •vf!£ ere< ! .soul I have ever known chen subject but sugar-on-the-kit-the this occurs, she gets sets h-l* uesperate and intent look; she the chl ? a . n< l Rets the broom and Now * SOU ‘ Quit the cyclone zone. case tendency would be —in this it lie! an easy » cheerful, “Oh, let and eat < L°’ th® mice will come in 1 U P before to-morrow morn*l** U has er prejudices because mine c/ au « h t me to, by respecting face*T k- 'j l » “owed head and solemn kroon, *5 er the dust-pan and the tiptoe fT." d thc ,u—head still bowed—l uoor verv • l! 16 kltchen , closing the cn aui «Uy alter me,