THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY SUPPLEMENT, SEPTEMBER 24, 1937
CABBAGES AND
KINGS
NORSETS Are Here to Re-
"Cain, according to a head-
line. But wouldn't "here to stay be more appropriate?
So To Speak
Lawsuits and bathing suits aren't so very different. The per- son who puts on a bathing suit is not likely to re-cover very much. Just a bare possibility, so to sneak
Bright Lad
"Hello, Pat, ye look busy." "Ah, Oi'm foolin' the foreman. Oï've carried the same hodful av bricks up an down the ladder arl day, an he thinks Orm workin'”.
This picture gives an excellent idea of the effect of the recent rains on the Colony's reservoirs was taken at the Jubilee Dam at Shing Mun. ("Mail" photo).
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Literally
"Peter says that since he's be come engaged to me, he is in the seventh heaven!”
"I know; he's been engaged six times before."
Oh, Gear!
Traffic Inspector: "Now, miss, what gear were you in at the time of the accident?”
She: "Oh, I had on a black beret, tan shoes, and a
sports dress.".
tweed
Shattered Romance
They were out on the silvery beach in light of the full moon. It was a night for romance, and she was anxious to patch up their quarrel. "Sweetheart," she sigh- ed, “darling, don't harden your heart against me.”
He started. "Eh?" he replied woodenly. "Oh, that's not my heart, that's my cigarette case.”
Picture
Fair Warning
"When I was a child I was told that if I made faces like that I'd stay like it."
"Well, you warned you, Auntie.”
can't say nobody
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Go Up Top
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Teacher: "Give me a sentence using the word “statue”.”
Abie: "Vell, ven I came in last night, mine fader shouts statue
living lexicon is he
Up In The World
"What is your brother's job?” "He's got a very high position in the shipping world.”
Command a ship?”.
"No; he's a lighthouse-keeper."
Diluted
Milkmen: "What has become of that cat which always used to come to the door with you?”
Housewife: "Oh, I gave it a drink of your milk and it died of water on the brain.”
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Can't Fool The Meter
"You look very downcast.” "Yes, my wife has been away for six months."
"Well?”
"I wrote her every week and said I was spending my evenings at home. She's back now, and the electric light bill has just come in It's half a crown?
Easy
Aeronautical experts had the "Composite Aircraft at chines, linked one on top chine is to help the hea the water by giving it a appearance in the trial: also on -view in course of taking off at Rochester on
Vive Le Sport!
trial.
A good sportsman is a man who always gives his hat 50 yards start before he begins to chase it.
His Opportunity
Burglar: "Don't shoot,
I'll go quietly."
Householder "All right. But listen here; just show me how
You managed
into the
house without
and we'll say
about it
Impossible
man recently wrote a book hout using the letter. E.
Who wrote a novel recently Without a single letter E.
Now, when I meet you, let us
try
To talk without a single I- Then watch our conversation
die!
Mike: "What d'ye trousis
"Pat
ye wear thim ear thim home again!"
"Grass has been known to grow to a height of over 00 feet," states a newspaper. That's the kind I must have planted, for my new lawn.
Family Census "We're planning how many relatives
"We've bought cot
Ho
discover
to make fined young man with
ma-
first
romantic
under a ould like
of a re- eye for
gasped "Did you
"How dreadful the horrified parent. get any answer?”
"Only one from Father”
So Simple
An old lady came to the win- dow of the booking office-at branch line station.
"I want a cket for Florence, she said.
After hunting through count-
railway
the he window with an
his face. Florence, any
her the little dog-
on the Ingrage,
the old lady sweetly said the draper as he
ad out a piece of silk the
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