TOPICAL TIT-BITS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 329, 14 April 1928, Page 14

TOPICAL TIT-BITS

That Congressman who says America has no trained propagandists hasn’t seen the new seed catalogues. —Publishers Syndicate. America, in sending Lindbergh and his plane to Mexico, certainly put its best feat forward. —Marshall County (Minn.) Banner. * * * About the only frills and furbelows now extant are those pantalette effects on lamb chops and roast chicken legs. —Arkansas Gazette. * * * Undoubtedly, a son of the Prince of Y\ ales would be heir to the thrown. —Arkansas Gazette. Practice makes perfect, we are told especially the practice of what we preach. —Virginian-Pilot. * * * ,In a London theatre the experiment has been tried of placing loud-speakers all over the auditorium. Usually they are seated just behind us. —Punch. * * * The race is getting healthier, authorities say—but not the race to the railroad crossing. * * * Marshall County (Minn.) Banner. A daily paper remarks that there are too many burglaries in this country. It does not state, however, what is the ideal number to have. —Punch. * * * Sir Austen Chamberlain says that war between England and America is unthinkable, all of which may be true, but then both England and America have some of the greatest unthinkers the word has ever known. —New York Evening Post. General Gillman of the British Army urges young officers to postpone getting married until they are at least thirty. But isn’t that rather late to start the most practical course in learning how to take orders? —Chicago Daily. News.