THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY SUPPLEME
ECEMBER 10
CABBAGES AND
TEVE been playing post-
man, mummy-delivering letters to all the houses in the street.***
"Have you, dear? But where did you get the letters?"
"Oh, we found them in your drawer upstairs, all tied up with blue ribbon."
Och, Ay!
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"Is McPherson in ?”
"Ay, but he's very busy; he's sharpening the gramophone needle for the party to-night.”
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Odd
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"That's a queer pair of stock- ings you have on, Pat-one red and the other green.”
"Yes; and it's the queer thing, too, but I've got another pair just like it at home."
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Most Aggravating
"My "usband's insomnia is drivin' me mad. I ain't been able to go through is pockets for weeks.”
Evolution
"The old-fashioned wife used to ask her husband to button up her back. The modern one asks him to powder it.
* * * Direct Hit
"Why does a woman say she's been shopping, when she hasn't bought a thing?"
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"Well, why does a man say he's been fishing when he hasn't canght anything?”
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More Home Chat
"Wife: "Once you used to give me presents, but now I never get. any."
Hubby: "Well, does the angler give bait to the fish he has caught?"
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Identifed
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"The boss says that when he was a boy on the farm they had a mule that was just like one of the family."
"Yes, and I know which one it was.”
ALSO RAN
1x
Once upon a time there
orse named Silk Stockings.
KINGS
Explanation
Why do so many men wear smart hats and shabby shoes? asks a fashion writer. One rea- son is that you can't get sho from a cafe.
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* * No Doubts
"Did you tell the lady I was out?"
“Yes, mum.”
"Did she seem to have any doubts about it ?***
"No, mum. She said she know- ed you wasn't.”
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Dangers of Competition Two convicts were telling each other why they were in the "Big House."
"Well," said one, "competition -sent me here. The Government got jealous because I made bank notes just as good as theirs."
Reassuring
Overheard at Wingfield: Timid Passenger: "Do planes like this crash often ?”
Pilot: "Oh, no; only once.”
* Double "How did you like whisky?" asked Pat.
that
"Fine," replied Mac, with con- viction. "It's made anither mön of me, and that ither mon wud. like a drap o' whisky as weel"
EGGED OFF
To the oft-repeated question, "Which came first, the bird or the egg?" an actor friend of ours? says he remembers the time when they both came together.
“Kamerad!
Mrs. Jones: "Why do you call your new maid “Japan'?”*
Mrs. Smith "Because she is 90 hard on China.”
Living Sacrifice"
Film Star "You brute! I actu ally gave up ten weeks of my life by marrying you”
Three A.M.
"John, I'm sure Theard a mouse squeak!""
"Well, dear, do you
get up and oil it?
General view of the links on the Kowloon Bowling Gree "Closing" Day - (“Mail” photo).
the annual
National Faith (Mr. N. R. Kirk) is here see "Ewo" Handicap from Donovan (Mr. CH. Gompertz) at last Saturday's Race Meeting("Mail photo).
Li Shit
after its unex ected su
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