ISN’T IT SO?

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

ISN’T IT SO?

Lovers often keep the parlor dark j while trying to strike a match. ! Another thing that puzzles us is where they put the cats when they put j them out for the night in Venice. An Italian authority declares that men look down on short skirts. That’s what is causing the epidemic in round I shoulders. Duty calls a man to church on Sunday, pleasure urges him to go golfing And Monday he arrives at the office, looking sunburned.

Waking Up.— Julia—“ What is the cure for love at first sight?” Amelia—“ Second Sight.” Highway Robbery. — There goes the old rascal who swindled me out of £B,ooo*’ “How did he do it?” “He refused to let me marry his i daughter.”

| It isn’t that modern girls like older , j men, but that they like fatter purses. I * * A job is a nuisance that prevents : a man lying in bed on a rainy morning and enjoying life. Some chorus girls propose to play Rugby football. There should be plenty of dazzling three-quarter-backs. ‘ In a recent competition of the longest !• hair the tresses of the winner reached the hem of her frock. But of course, ; that’s not very far.

Notorious Plagiarist. —“ Why did you | drop Shakespeare in modern garb?” j “Too many people threatened to sue j me for stealing their plots.” . An Opportunist. —She—“And what did papa say when you told him you J couldn't sleep for thinking of me?” i Jack—“He offered me a job as night . i watchman in his factory.” »