ISN’T IT SO?

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 212, 26 November 1927, Page 27 (Supplement)

ISN’T IT SO?

A girl with cotton stockings never sees a mouse. At least a woman always looks on the bright side of a mirror. The child raised in the lap of luxury might be more endurable if it were frequently spanked in the same place. Prosperity is the period when people run up bills that worry them during a business depression. Love at first sight doesn’t seem so strange now as it did some years ago when there was such low visibility.

Winding up the Ingersoll.—Robert Ingersoll was famous for the library of infidel books which he possessed. One day a reporter called on Mr. Ingersoll for an interview, and among other questions, asked: ‘Would you mind telling me how much your library cost you. Mr Ingersoll?” Looking over at the shelves, he answered: “Well, my boy, these books cost me, anyhow, the Governorship of Illinois, and perhaps the Presidency of the United States!”

All men are born free and equal, but i many of them marry. ... A historian announces that women used cosmetics in the Middle Ages. ' Women still use cosmetics in the middle ages. * • * It’s all right for a girl to seek a I model husband, but while she is at it i i she should be sure he is a working j model. One Long Hop is the name of a i Chinese baby born in Chicago. He J > should have been entered in the Air j Derby.

In Good Voice. —This story is being told of a London Judge who likes j music He was the guest of a box-holder at ! a musical play, but his hostess main- I tained an even flow of chatter all through the piece. At the end, she cordially invited him to join her party at the opening per- 1 formance at Covent Garden this season. “With pleasure,” said he. “I would I j like to hear you in grand opera.”