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Show A bachelor girl is sometimes an old maid who is ashamed to admit it. New Zealand has prohibited the importation im-portation of cooking utensils coated or lined with lead or any of its alloys. When all others fail to please . Try Denison's Coffee. The Proper Place. "Have you established a 'shut-in club?" "Yes; in the jail." Conscience and Love. To make conscience tolerable, love should be thrown around it. Con- -science is the frame of character, and love is the covering for it. Henry Ward Beecher. Reassuring. Nervous Old Lady (on small English Eng-lish railway) Oh, dear! how were rocking! I'm sure an accident will happen to this train! Elderly Aboriginal It's along o' their bein' short-handed wi' skilled men, mum, so my son 'e orfered to drive her just to oblige, and (confidentially) (confi-dentially) I don't think 'e knows much about it. Passing Show. Shakespeare's Bad Literature. The woman visitor to the prison cells was amazed to find such a theory of depravity. "Do you mean to tell me," she asked, "that reading Shakespeare brought you to prison? What works did you read?" " 'Romeo and Juliet,' mum," said No. 411. "But what evil influence could that have on you?" "Why, it taught me to be a porch climber, mum." Puck. |