TOPICAL TITBITS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 230, 17 December 1927, Page 25 (Supplement)

TOPICAL TITBITS

i Well, anyhow, we have an idea th j j j the candidates for president of Mexico i are not pestered by life-insuran< «■ agents. —Des Moines Tribune. Gene Tunney Is going to make sonic girl a perfect husband. lie says he won’t marry until he’s through fighting. —New York Evening Post. If the Chinese understand what they are fighting about, it certainly gives them a most decided advantage over the rest of the world. —Nashville Banner. In a contest in dressing for speed, a Chicago girl won in forty-five seconds. What could she have been putting on the last thirty seconds? —Los Angeles Times. * Ht h? rH t ~ •

-r Ti~ yj- -j- -r - fF ~e ~r ~r ~r -F ~r- - Faith Cure.— Bride: “Please try and eat the cake. dear. It’s really a Jot better than it tastes.” Punishment Fits the Crime. —“l have no use for Jazz,” says a writer. Jt must be admitted, however, that It does sometimes drown the noisy soupeater. Didn’t Work. —“l’m sorry I can’t p you to-day,” said the debtor. 4 My shoemaker’s just been here!” “Yes, I know,” said the tailor. “He told me on the stairs that you hadn’t paid him because you expected your tailor. Here’s the bill.”

Week-End Guest.—“ One of my ancestors cam© over on the Mayflower." “Oh, really? How long is he going to stay?’* Slight Bump.—“ Doesn't it upset you when you run over a pedestrian?" “No, I’ve never hit one as big as s that." Why She Paled.— My wife ran the car into the fence the other day and knocked some paint off." “Off. what, your car or the fence? ' “Neither; off my wife." Well-known Slacker.—Willie: *P. . what’s a parasite?" His Pa: A parasite, son. is a man 1 who walks through a revolving door i without doing his share of pushing.'*