TOPICAL TITBITS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 637, 13 April 1929, Page 27

TOPICAL TITBITS

There is an advertisement in an Ohio paper for a lost black and white tomcat. 'We think, he was on the air last night.—“ Toledo Blade.”

The automobile has brought former distant places closer and closer together, including our house and th*> poorhouse.—“ The Thomas E. Pickerill Service.”

According to an official of the College of Arms fewer persons now bother to trace their ancestry. This is probably due to the increasing difficulty of hushing it up afterwards. —“Punch.”

When you see smoke rolling out the windows of a modern home these days it might be a female bridge party instead of the house on fire.—“ Florida. Times-Union.”

What has become of the old-fash-ioned barber who said he was “a professor of the tonsorial art”?—“Atchison Globe.” He is now practising as a beautician.—“ Arkansas Gazette.

According to the Atchison “Globe.” emotionalism in a woman makes her “attractive.” Providing, of course, she does not dramatise it with a sashweight or something.—‘‘Arkansas Gazette.”

A partv of motorists who left New York in 1916 have been travelling round the world for the past 12 years. It is hoped that ultimately they will find somewhere to park their can—“ London Opiniop.”