1938-01-21 — Page 14

A fine view of a race at Kwanti taken by our Staff photographer.

Not Exacting

I've never wanted a wife to darn my socks and mend my shirts. All I ever wanted was a wife with enough. money to buy me new socks and shirts long before my others ever needed darning or mending.

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On Account

"I hear," remarked Mrs. A. (you know her), "that that nice young Mrs. B. got all her furni- ture on the hire-purchase."

"Yes," said Mrs. C. (you know her, too). "She is feathering her nest--is she not?-with a little down."

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Inventiveness Discouraged

"I don't mind what you do to your face, Miss Nimble, but please avoid make-up in the letters I dictate to you."

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bread

Cheers From The Kiddies! The best way to serve pudding is to place it in a pan, step to the back door, and say: "Chick! Chick!"..

Agreed at Last

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"I always thought you such a brave man when I mar- ried you."

"Yes, so did everyone else.” And then there was a beautiful girl-elephant who could make an elephant forget anything.

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Fellow Conspirators "Hoskins, the cook advises me that you were badly intoxicated last night and that you were try- ing to roll a barrel out of the basement. Can this be true?”

"Yes, sir."

"And where was I during this time?"

"In the barrel, sir."

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Or That There?

"You know," said the doctor, "the source of your trouble this car,"

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"This 'ere what?" said patient.

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Joke for the Children

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I read that schoolmasters thinking of abolishing the cane. So there will be no more school- boy howlers.

VOGUE

Sale

SHOES

DRESSES

MILLINERY

Gloucester Bldg., Hong Kong.

178, Nathan Rd., Kowloon.

THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY SUPPLEMENT, JANUARY 21, 1938

Passengers and the repair gang following the accident to the

Canton Belle last Sunday. ("Mail" photo).

Miss P. Scott-Harston leading in her own pony Arazy (W. H. S. Davis) after it had won the Hunter's Hurdle Race at Kwanti läst Sunday. Mail photo