THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY SUPPLEMENT. SEPTEMBER 3,
CABBAGES AND
KINGS
millionaire decided to give a: swimming pool to an asylum. Satisfied with the work, and having been thanked by the gov emmor and the doctors, he turned to an attendant and asked what the inmates thought of it.
"Sir," said the man, "they are delighted. It gives them the greatest possible happiness, They stand at the side and jump down, one after the other. They slide off the chute all day, and the highest diving board is not high enough for them. In fact, when we run the water in, I don't know what will happen."
Because of a tendency to snore, many a man has been rapped in slumber
Revised Version
One touch of evolution makes
world kin.
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Looks Count
writer says his wife earns
more by being photographed than
he does by his writings.
Her features are obviously bet ter than his
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A striking picture taken in the
Tip
Here is a certain winner for to- day's 3.30-the bookmaker.
The warship is the Enited States
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Nicely Put
"Drunkenness is passing out,"
says a writer. That seems a very "apt description.
Dejectedly he sat in his
up-
turned shirt sleeves, and wrapt in thought."-Short Story.
Presumably a newcomer to a nudist colony.
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Erimp Of Life
My doctor says champagne is one of the finest things out for lumbago. And that's why I've still got lumbago.
Did she
money
him for
"No she divorced him for it.
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day
Life
complained the other ather than go on the
Land son had become
black in Lond
while the son
Grain
king
has
that mos
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Shop
the