NEWS OF THE WEEK IN PICTURES
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Some of the larg crowd bathers at Repulse Bay las (“Mail” ́photo).
the backg
the Lido.
The coffin `containing the re- mains of the late Mr. Charles E. Watson, who was so tragically killed in Kowloon, being carried into the Prote: int Cemetery.
Cabbages And Kings
this world
and
The dangers crisis cannot be exagge
is gratifying to find you wide awake to the situation.”
Highbrow in Hollywood distinguished visitor was l
be-
ing shown through the movie stu- dio. In the authors room the visitor noticed a chap who was seated before a typewriter his chin cupped in his hands and a blank sheet of paper in the ma- chine
ou're asking about that fel- low ? said the guide. "Why he's a new writer. Before he puts anything on paper he first thinks about it.
“I see” murmured the visitor,
highbro
My My!
dear" said the gush- we are going to Paris his year. It will be our fourth visit. I say to my hus- band, "Darling.' I say, “we are be- coming positive Parisites!"""
Politeness is like an air-cushion there may be nothing in it, but It eases our jolts.
Two Impossibilities
“You and the wife fixed your holidays yet?”
"No, but I've made one or two hopeless suggestions.
Job Hunting
Things certainly were tough for me and my wife the past few months, asserted the husband.
Hardly any money and, neithe
of us working. For a while it looked as if I'd have to hustle around for a job.”..
"You look for a job?" echoed his listener, disbelievingly
The husband nodded.Why not?" he replied very seriously. "We both couldn't sit around idle. Somebody had to find her a job!”
Secretly and in Order
“When is the next train out of this burg????
welve o'clock, sir." What? Isn't there one before
sir. We never run one
before the next.”
Both Ways the farmistice who had been in
took
the
chaplains ame mess verofresch other station One was CE land and the other WES Presbyterian.
of
Well, sald one them, "It has been good to have worked with you all these months. We have been doing the Lord's work — you in your way and I in His,'
Motoring Hint And then there was
was the sweet young thing, taking the examina- tion for a driver's license, who was asked: "If your brakes ‘sud- denly failed to work while you were going down hill, what would you do?
She hesitated only a moment, then smiled brightly and answer- ed: “Why, that's easy; I'd j just jump out and put a big stone un- der the wheel,”
Aha
Dehydrating the Process
Wo Irishmen stood in front of "drug store in Dublin. In the window was a display of rubber gloves.
"Now I wonder what is them things for?" aaked one of the Irishmen.
“Oh," replied the other Irish-
put them thi ash ver nds witho
Hands wet.
that the pict
a very few sit
With an Austrian
oices Here
me invisible, heares called back
'Mail"
Two fair swimmers caught on their wa
water. photo).
Proof
schoolteacher had been telling her pupils something about George Washington..
"Now" she said, can anyone tell me which Washington was
great general or great ad-
The small son of a seaman raised his hand and she signaled him to s
“He was a great general," said the boy. I saw a picture of him crossing the Delaware and no great admiral would put out from shore standing up in a skiff.”
Never Mind the Bill
Madam: "What is the idea of running the electric stove all the tîme?”
Cook: "I thought you wouldn't mind, seeing as you were going to get a new one next week
Ambitions for Him
studying now?". new-rich mother
just begun the study lecules,” he answered.
For a moment she looked blank; gleam of interest showed Her eyes
hope you will be and practice, con- relaimed eagerly.
your, father ne, but he couldn't keep it
to
to
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