1937-09-03 — Page 7

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

Silhoue

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the