TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 18, 18 November 1927, Page 6

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

A Super-woman, ' From America comes this interesting statistical item: "And only a woman! Jani the thirty years of my married life X have served 235,425 meals, made 33,190 loaves of bread, 5930 cakes, and 7960 pies. I have canned 1550 quarts of fruit, raised 7660 chicks, churned 5640 pounds of butter, put in 86,461 hours sweeping, washing, scrubbing. I estimate the worth of my labour conservatively at 115,485 dollars 50 cents, none of which I have ever collected. But I still love my busband and childxen, and wouldn’t mind starting all over again for them." And yet only a woman! Surely she must be a superwoman to have kept such minute records for thirty years. « * Her Retort. Here is a story of an old woman, ailing and half deaf, who was called upon by an official of the Ministry of Health. ."Y’m not a bit worried about the Minister’s health,’? she snapped. ‘‘I’ve been laid up with the rheumatics myself these last two years, and he’s meyer come near me.’’ And she slammed the door.

Quaintly Put. | At a gathering of provincial advertising men in England recently one of. the speakers created laughter by reading the following advertisement of a certain Indian native mnewspaper:"The news of England we tell the lat-: est, Written in perfect style and much earliest. Do a murder get commit we hear and tell of it. Do a tnighty chief die we publish it in bor@ers of sombre. Staff has each one been college, and write like the Kipling and the Dickens, We circulate town, and extortionate not for advertisements." Schoolboy English. A Manchester schoolmaster the other day asked his children to write something about sheep. One paper said: ‘The sheep is noted for its woolly coat and in a St. Luke’s." Read it aloud and you may, perhaps, gather what the boy meant.

The Aspirate and the Aspirant. A certain vicar has a worthy, if somewhat illiterate, lady who comes in daily to "do the chores."?> One morning she told him that the tram fares were to be raised; but a day or two later informed him that this was not so, and she supposed it was only a "humour.’’ The vicar, highly amused, repeated this to his churchwarden. He didn’t even smile, but said, ‘‘Yes, those kind of people do drop their "aitches,’? don’t they ?"? For the Dressing Table. | A set of mats in jade green organdie are. picot-edged and bordered with a single line of jade green wool, The. corners are decorated) with Chinese oddments and characters in bright shades of crewel wool. Wee birds of royal blue sewing silk, tiny green wool leaves, and bright orange buds are besprinkled discriminatingly here and there. A Distinctive Posy. A wonderful large white lily for wear with a frock of silver is made from white silk chiffon velvet. The large pointed petals are arresting in their pale purity. A vivid splash is brought by the bright orange stamens, and the flower is set in green chiffon eaves.