PASSING SHOTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 224, 10 December 1927, Page 25 (Supplement)

PASSING SHOTS

After) all ot man’s illusions are gone, there still remains the one that he’s important. * * * “Snakeskin is very popular with women just now,” says a fashion writer. But even more popular with snakes. The Italian side of Mont Blanc has i ! been named Mount Mussolini .Never- ; i theless, it still insists on wearing a ' | white shirt. i Miss 1927, according to London j dressmakers, is almost a replica of j Venus de Milo. Looks like her and I I dresses like her. A plumber injured himself recently i | by falling off a ladder, and was taken i Ito hospital. True to habit, he is j j mending slowly. sje * * j In a contemporary a doctor tells readers what to do when run down. I The best thing is to take the car’s number if possible. j $1? r.N At -i- y r.r r.T " ._".7Y COURTING PHOEBE I Like to call On Phoebe Bright; She always sez: “Let's dowse the light.”

Brain-Work Stuff. Farmer.— ‘ Thought you said you had plowed the ten-acre field?” Plowman —“No I only said I was thinking about plowing it.” “Oh, I see you’ve merely turned it over in your mind.”

Picked the Wrong Sport. —Convict I (reading newspaper)—“Dere’s justice ; for yer! A football player breaks two ! men’s jaws and another man’s leg and is de lion of de hour, while I gets ten for only stunnin’ an old guy wid a blackjack.”