SMILES FOR THE DAY.
" I have a tireless cooker." " Thatfs nothing. I've got a smokeless husband." Mrs Fowler: "How do you like my new hat ?" Mr Fowler: "What did it cost ?" "Have you ever been at the tele--1 phone in a storm ?" " Um —yes. My wife occasionally calls me up." " What do you think of Charlie's proposing to me when he hasn't known me a week ?" "I think that's the 'reason." Jones: " Why I Brown, your wife has a voice as sweet as velvet." Brown: "Hush, or she will want a dress to match it !" " If love were all, if love were all," The poet sang amid the hills. But well he knew it meant, a home And rent, and coal, and grocery bills. " I'm so happy to-day." "My dear lady, I congratulate- you. But why ?" "My daughter is coming out to-night." "Dear child! And how long was she in for ?"
A mail once wrote to Sir W. S. Gilbert criticising the use of the word "ooyful" in one of the Operas. "How can* any; one-be ..full, of coy ?',.' the critic inquired. "Really <I don't know," Gilbert replied ; " but, having recently come across the.word 'bashful,' I am trying to discover how any one can be full of bash."
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 8452, 21 August 1911, Page 6
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