TOPICAL TITBITS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 122, 13 August 1927, Page 25

TOPICAL TITBITS

As a horse lover, the Prince of Wales displays a most forgiving spirit. —“Arkansas Gazette.” Alany of the girls nowadays seem to feel that beauty is knee-deep.—“ Louisville Times.’ ’ * * * Many a man thinks he has an open mind when it’s merely vacant.—“ Peoria Star.” * * * Trouble with present-day marriage crops is that they are too divorcified. — “Wall Street Journal.’ Stresemann has tried everything to get the French Army out of the Rhineland except Prohibition.—“ Dallas News.” Hasn’t “Say it with flyers” become just as serviceable a slogan for Uncle Sam as “Say it with flowers”? —“Beloit News.” * * We read of a novelist who makes a practice of pausing before finishing a novel. Another good plan is to pause before beginning one.—“ Punch.” * * * “Are the Scots a Dying Race?” asks a newspaper headline. We doubt it, in spite of the fact that living is very’ expensive nowadays.—“ Punch.” * * * Sinclair Lewis’s son has come home from Europe to see what the United States, is like. Haven’t they let him read his father’s books. —“Minneapolis Journal.” * * * Prohibition may not have done anything else for the country, but it has reduced the number of men who think they can sing.—“El Paso Times.” * * * A long-legged sheep in the Himalayas is able to run 40 miles an hour. That’s the kind of little lamb to follow Alary nowadays.—“ Arkansas Gazette.”