PASSING SHOTS

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

PASSING SHOTS

The best thing to get when you are in Russia is—out. * * * A woman’s face is her fortune, only when it draws much interest. * * * God gives every bird its food, but does; not throw it into the nest. m m * Don’t buy thermometers in the summer, they are always lower in the win ter. + * * Slow thinkers used to live the longest. But now motor-cars have changed all :his. Don’t carry round a lot of opinion with which to start an argument. Facts are better. * * * The more eggs a hen lays the lower egg 3 go, but the more bricks a man lays the higher they go. * * * A recent visitor from the British Isles informed us that he liked the sea all right, but he preferred it when it was not marcelled. # * * Unfortunately Phrased. —Seldom was old Strawberry, the village roadmender to be seen in the local church yet cn this particular occasion he had managed it somehow. The vicar, as he came out after the service, whs quick to notice the old chap as he hobbled toward the gateway. “Hullo, Strawberry!” called the vicar. “Like the sermon?” “Yes, indeed, zur,” answered the old fellow, touching his cap. “ 'Twas like water to a drownin’ man, zur!”