In Lighter Vein

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 36, 21 March 1930, Unnumbered Page

In Lighter Vein

Bridegroom, anxious to please: "Sweetheart, these biscuits are bully," Bride: "Oh, George! that’s a butter plate you're biting!" A Waiting Job. ~ Daisy: Dick, you look like a waiter tm that dress suit! Dick: I expect I do. Haven’t I waited two hours for you to get ready? Seeing is Believing. --. A guide was conducting a party of visitors round New York. They stopped before the Woolworth building. "That is a skyscraper," said the guide, laconically. "Him," muttered an old farmer, sceptically, "I'd like to see it at work." He Got It. "Well," said the lawyer for the defence to his client, "I was certainly surprised at your conviction." "T wasn’t; it was all your fault." _.-"All my fault? I put up a magnificent fight for you." "Yes, an’ you kep’ yellin’ at the jury that you demanded justice fer me till they went an’ give it to me."

Husband: "Don’t sit quietly there! Can’t you see I’ve been stung on the eheek by a, bee?" Wife: "Never mind, darling. Perhaps it’s a vitamin bee-so good for you." A Psychic Phenomenon. A man and woman accidentally touched each other’s feet under the table. "Secret telegraphy," said she. "Communion of soles," said he. Equality. Her Father: But, my boy, you are too young to marry my daughter. You are but twenty-one and she is twentyseven. Suitor : But, sir--"No; at present the disparity is too great. Better wait half a dozen years and she’ll probably be about the same age." Welcomed Death. The after-dinner speaker droned on and on. One diner after another yawned and nodded, one finally resting his head on the table Leaning over, the chairman tapped him on the head with his gavel The delinquent raised his head a little "Hit me again and harder, " he said, "T can still hear him"