ODDS AND ENDS

New Zealand Tablet, 3 September 1908, Page 38

ODDS AND ENDS

The latest fashion. — Bad temper ir> 'all the rage.

A peculiarity of the English . language. — It is necessary 10 wind up a clock to make it go, bui we wind up a business to make it stop.

' What do you expect to be when you come of age, my little man?' asked the visitor. ' Twenty-one,' was the little man's reply.

She : ' Men and women can't be^judged by the same standards. For instance, a man is known by the company he keeps.' He: 'And a woman by -the servants she can't keep.'

• * Poetic 3'oung man : ' Don't you feel gloom}' when the sky is overcast with grey, when the rythmic rain sounds a dirge upon the roof, and the landscape's beauties are hid by the weeping mist?' Practical young woman: 'Yes; it's dreadfully annoying. It does make one's hair come out of curl so.'

A suburban minister, during his discourse one Sabbath morning, said, 'In each blade of grass there is a sermon.' The following day one of his flock discovered the good man pushing a lawn-mower about his garden, *and paused to say : ' Well, parson, I'm glad to see you engaged in cutting your sermons short. '