THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY SUPPLEMENT, OCTOBER 8, 1937
AND KINGS
CABBAGES AND
TOURIST guide has travel.
led six times round the world in the last three years. He is what is known as a lightning conductor.
She Clung
"Did you ever get your dia- mond back from that peach you were stuck on?"
"No; she was the cling-stone variety."
Jungle Tale.
Dentist: "If you won't open'. your mouth I can do nothing.**
“But my mouth is open.”
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Never Succeeded Magistrate: "Speeding, eh? How many times have you been before me?"
Motorist: "Never, your TOT- ship, I've often tried to pass you on the road, but my old bus will only do fifty-five."
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Many a modern girl's hair looks like a mop, but that doesn't worry her, because she doesn't know what a mop looks like.
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Bilingual
Voice from bedclothes: "What time is it?”
Unsteady one: "One o'clock, m'dear."
"I thought I heard it strike two, as you came in.”
"Bilingual
clock, m'dear,
Strikes one in English; then strikes one in Chinese.””
This Week's Best
And then there was the respondent who addressed contribution to:
"THE CABBAGE EDITOR."
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Great Thought
cor
his
Probably the man who advises one to fight an enemy with his own weapons has never tried to sting a wasp.
Not Class Enough “Who beat the Philistines?”. "I only follow the First Divi- sion," was Herbert's answer.
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"Mr. Jones, as you all know, is leaving to take charge of another parish. In recognition of his good. work here, I propose we give him a £20 honorarium.”
"Ah, but are you sure he can play it?"
Announcing The New Arrival
"You'd better go home. George. presented you rebate off your income
Your wife has with a tax"
The Last Word
"My husband's a postal sorter.” "Sorter wot?”-
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Enterprise
"Yes," he said, “I
was
left
without mother and father at nine
; months, and ever since I've had to
battle along for myself.”
How did you manage to support yourself at nine months?”
"I crawled to a baby show, and won first prize.”
Children had a grand time at the Diocesan Girls School Bazaar last Saturday. ("Mai" photo).
Good Old Days
We didn't have any of these newfangled electric kitchen gad- gets in the good old days, but mother got along all right with a set of well-trained daughters.
Should a man tell his past to he mar- his sweetheart before ries her? asks a correspondent. Well, why not keep it for the long winter evenings after mar- riage?
IT TOOK ME
MONTHS,
BUT-
NSURANCE OPRCE
I'VE FOUND
the Best at Last
ANCHOR
BEER
This bear came to close quarters with the hons of Trafalgar Square, lat the Palladium but it was merely on its way to a morning rel for the new show "Londor Rhapsody." -It is reathing bear called "Bruni" from Siberia. Photo showsBruni" greets one of Landseer's lions but is met with a stony stare. (For Copyright).
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