PASSING SHOTS
A reader asks if fish gain weight rapidly. This depends entirely upon who catches ’em. Eating apples may keep the doctor away, but it started dressmakers in their businesses. * * * When a girl says she has nothing to wear that is an exaggeration —but not much. The radio is thirty-one years old this week, but it has not yet stopped howling. “Married commercial travellers are the best talkers,” says a writer. “They are away from home so much. We may want but little here below, but we seem to want it as quick as ever we can get it. * # * Scientists have been unable to determine what causes sleep. Some preachers are also puzzled over the phenomenon. * In this age of speed, noise and the annihilation of distance, it is interesting to note that the snail looks just as cheerful as ever. A novelist reminds us that it is never too late to learn. In fact, the later a man is in getting home the more his wife tells him. Iron chains were used in a West End orchestra the other evening. Yet we wouldn't mind betting that the saxophonist broke loose and played after all.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 424, 4 August 1928, Page 23
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196PASSING SHOTS Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 424, 4 August 1928, Page 23
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