PASSING SHOTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 590, 16 February 1929, Page 23

PASSING SHOTS

I “Even the hairs of our head are | numbered.” Some numbered 0. A beautiful woman gets talked about. The plain women do the talking:. The Quickness of the hand deceives the eye. That’s why there are black eyes. Judging: by the way they act, middle-aged people must feel younger than they look. When tho boy tells the caller. "He isn’t in,” it may mean. “He isn’t in funds.” * * * For a bachelor to be really happy lie should live in a house adjoining a married couple. “This is where I shine,” said the girl as she discovered she had forgotten her vanity case. When the cat’s away the mice will play—but maybe the cat’s not having such a punk time either. * * It is getting so hard for a man to find a wife who will help him wash the dishes. Tho politicians would give the ! people what they wanted if the people I knew what they wanted and the poli- | ticians were abbs -to give it to them.

Sometime, Somewhere —He: “I had a wonderful time at jour party last night.” She: “Why, 1 had no party last night.” He: “That so? Well, believe me, I was at somebody’s party.” Discouraged. —A Frenchman was relating his experiences of learning the English language. “When I discovered that if I was quick I was fast,” lie said, “and that if I was tied I was fast, if I spent too freely I was fast, and that not to eat was to fast, I was discouraged. But when I came across the sentence, “The first one won one one-dollar prize, I gave up trying to learn English.’