AMERICAN HUMOR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVIII, Issue 81917, 22 January 1907, Page 4

AMERICAN HUMOR.

AML'SLV; SELECTION'S i'KOil A NEW" VOLUME. Judging from a little book, entitled "Foolisli Etiquette," ju,t published in England, the supply of American humor is by no means exhausted, and the traditional facility possessed by .Americans for concocting verbal joke's remain as dcligntful as ever. The following are a few Selections from this new volume:—■ "An insurance president should not speak with an ordiary bank robber." "A fool and nis canoe arc soon parted." '■Jn righteous anger let thy words be blue." "Jf the daughter of the chief falls in love with the missionary, he should remember it is better to "be a husband than a fricassee.'' "Children and fools speak the Itulli. and I hut is why they are not more popular.'' "Laugh, and the world laughs will] you: joke, and you laugh alone." "N'ever apologise to the waiters for making them trouble. They're waiting for it." "A fount and his wife's money arc soon parted." "Wear the best clothes, even if you can't pay for them. 'Tailors are the most patient of men. One tailor has the palience of nine." "If mo,l women Mere as bad as they are painted liiey wouldn't paint."