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Lining up at the tap

Repulse Bay. (“Mail" photo).

Taken at the Police Recreation Club last week.

“Mail" photo).

CABBAGES AND KINGS

REPORT says there are 30.

per cent

fewer blondes now

in the Colony than there were last year.

Evidently dyeing off.

They've Got It Wrong

A doctor says that one of the finest things for young people is getting up with the lark. The trouble is that so many of them keep the lark up all night.

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Taking No Chances

Policé are investigating the discovery of a man half drown- ed in a reservoir. He must have seen the notice: "No swimming allowed.”

A boy who rescued his brother from drowning is held ineligible for reward because the rescue of a relative is not an act of bra- very but a human impulse.

This raises a nice question as to whether

mother-in-law

would be considered a relative or not.

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Add Definitions

So quiet that you could ́ hear a stitch drop.

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Warder: “Your wife has come to see you"

Convict: "Which one?" Warder I said your wife!" Convict: I know; but I was put here for bigamy.'

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Modern Marvel

It took a man 12 years to learn to comb his hair, hop and juggle at the same time: So now he can comb his hop and juggle at

the same

tim

Agreed

An expert says that no two wars are alike. No, each one is worse than the one before:

A great effort is being made to increase road safety in England. chester, where the authorities have instituted special lectures by traffic

The above picture was taken in Man- and diagrams, teach children traffic sense,

Rapid

An aeroplane designer says that we should be able to fly at 800 miles an hour within five Then it will be a case of years. "in one hemisphere and out the other.

“How did the Smith wedding 80 off?”

Fine, until the minister ask ed the bride if she would obey her husband

What happened "She replied.

Answer To Correspondent Photographer: You can easily make your own darkroom; just smash the electric light bulb.

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"MacIntosh must have had a lot to drink at the concert last night?"-"

"How's that?»,

"Well, when I was taking him home, he let me fall twice!

Cherchez la Femme

was

you think silly? And the groom,

a sort of daze, replied,

Father Tommy

I

Error

As M. P. says that he does not like the looks of Spain. He must have mistaken the

war for beauty contest.

Small Son Oh having another

ife.

YOUR

This Week's Great Thought

It is lucky that love. firs sight has no second sight.

with the aid of models

Certainty

Too much hustle, says a doc- tor, is the cause of much ́ill- health. We'll wager that horse we backed in the 3.30 at Happy Valley enjoys the rudest of health.

* * * In_The_P.W.D.?.

"I dug this hole where I was told to, and began to put the dirt like I was supposed to. But

won go back into it. do?"

For a long

ile the supervisor

Then i'll have to dig the hole

Improves

The average schoolgirl say an ucational authority, is poor

geometry. Yet when she

up she soon becomes eternal triangles.

in

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