SHORTWAVES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 2, Issue 51, 14 June 1940, Page 7

SHORTWAVES

BARBER was trimming the beard of King Archelaus, and asked him, "How shall I cut it?" "In silence," replied the monarch.-Plu-tarch. % » * UT not your trust in money, but put your money in trust-O. W. Holmes. * FS x N Chicago, Edward J. Collins paced the corridors of the Maternity Hospital, shouting, "I’ve got to see her. Ive just got to see her.’ Arrested for disorderly conduct, he told the judge: "It’s the first one. I'm an uncle for the first time.’-Time. * * * = bee! many people live on the reputation of the Teputation they might have made? -O. W. Holmes, x * N Europe it is rather annoying to live now.French cartoonist Oscar Fabres, on arrival in U.S.A. * * * IGHTNING must, I think, be the wit of heaven, -Sydney Smith. * * N Princeton, Ill. U.S.A.. census taker F. J. Fletcher, sitting on a farmer’s porch, asked: "Does this house need repairs?" The farmer opened his mouth. The porch collapsed.-Time. * * x ET’S park the corset of hidebound policies and vamp the voters of America-Mrs. Worthington Scranton, of Scranton. * * * ID you ever hear my definition of marriage? It is, that it resembles a pair of sheaf’, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.-Sydney Smith. * m * EVERY toy. soldier should be abolished. We should disarm the nursery.-Dr. Paulina Luisi. 1" * * 2 O me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows-and I needn’t.-Francis Yeats-Brown. * * * AR or no war. the love of woman is eternal. -"Daily Mirror,’ London. % % * oo leave very few ghosts compared with murders.-Osbert Sitwell,