MEHE, CHINA MATESFRIDAY SUP
1937
CABBAGES AND KINGS
Little Boy: "Please, teacher, there aren't any pencils."
Teacher (correcting him)" "There are no pencils; or, we have no pencils; or, they have no pencils.
"Little Boy: "Where are the blinking pencils, then?"
Flying Angel Johnny Mum, have angels got wings?”
Mother: "Yes, dear; why?” Johnny: "I heard Daddy call the servant an angel. Will she fly ?**
Mother: "Yes, dear, first thing to-morrow morning!”»
Top To Toe
First Actor: “I can't get my shoes on a
Second Actor: "What! Feet swollen, too?”.
Joys of Parenthood Wife: "What do you suppose baby is thinking about?”
Brute: "I suppose he's think- ing what to cry about to-night.”
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men
wear
Easy To Tell Married women wear wedding rings, says a correspondent, so why don't married something to distinguish them from single ones? Our cynic says they do that tell-tale worried look
In Good Training
a. Counsel (to woman witness): "I hope I have not given you too much trouble with all these ques- tions ?***
Witness Not at all I have a smail boy aged six at home.”
Germans
have been
exhorted
to chew their food longer for the sake of the national economy. But what if you're trying to cope with a very hot potato?
My Dear Watson When you see two men in the front seat and two women in the back seat, you can rest assured that it is a married couples' out-
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In Hollywood "Actors and actresses," says a writer, "have to move in the best circles." And also, of course, in the best triangles.
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Lying Full Length "What are you planning to do after you graduate?”
"I'm going to learn my dad's business from the ground up.”
"I'm not going to work either."
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Absent-minded
The professor who hid his head in his hands and forgot where he had put it.
Group photo taken at the German Club after the wedding of Herr Max Springweiler and Fraulein Ruth Rau (Ming Yuen).
The scene at the wharf as the troops
photo).
“Dilwara
Home.
Roond
Worrid
Once upon a time there was a Scotsman who was fond of travel; but as he didn't like to spend his money he used to stay at home and just let his mind wander.
Gauze And Effect: The less we wear the longer we shall live, says a doctor Well there'll be a lot of very old wo- men in Hong Kong in another generation.
Same Weapon
some ways the modern man: is very similar to the primitive man. If his women folk talk too much he goes to his club, while his ancestor just reached for it.
Caught by grapher in the
finsla af the U
photo- Champion
South China
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