RANDOM SHOTS

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 142, 18 June 1938, Page 6 (Supplement)

RANDOM SHOTS

"The practice of keeping pets is dying out,** we read; "the modern girl doesn't seem to keep anything." Except, of course, late hours. . ♦ * ♦ * The girt who need to he given "bushels of kisses before she married him now has to be satisfied with a few pecks, and sometimes these are given gmdingly. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ "It seems an extraordinary waste of time when a film set tslirri sefto In build and the actual showing on the screen lasts two minutes," says a critic. Oh, we don't know. Two minutes soon passes. ♦ ♦ * ♦ Read in a book the other day that A polio was chasing a nymph and she turned into a tree* Apoßo warn Jueley, Most nymphs men chase turn inte restaurants or jewellers' shops. ♦ : ♦ **r ■ + All the average man wants is a fairly easy job, a new automobile, a beautiful wife—and creditors who listen to reason. t ♦ ♦ V "Social standing in prehistoric times was judged by a person's skill in using weaponss novelist <sKs us. Been in those days there were welUknown dub men. . ♦ ♦ A collector employed by a Midlands gas supply company claims to be one of the fastest workers in his particular line. In fact beholds the record for the 100 metres. -i new material, which enables the" T-earer to sur. bathe without undressing, teas shown recently al a Continental exhibition. We understand that one nudist colony has already ordered a yard of the stuff. Ilk- ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ asp South American town there treniois nearly every day. officially classified as a game

By ZAMEL

We are reminded by a doctor that a stocking wrapped round the neck will do much to cure a sore throat. But a cold in the head is not relieved by a sock on the nose. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ A manufacturer of dress materials Mays short skirts mean a decrease in dividends. Maybe, but they also mean an increase in interest for the man in the street. * * ♦ ♦ An American stores manager reports that the demand for revolvers has fallen raw prohibition came to an end, whereas the sale of stationery has shown a big increase. Does this mean that rival gangsters are now content to write each other nasty letters? ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ We read of a poet who talks to trees and shrv.bs as though they understood him. We, overheard a man doing that the other day; we rather think he had lost his golf in a gorse bush. ♦ ♦ .♦ ♦ - According to junk merchants, fortunes have been made from old tin can*. Especially, says » disgruntled correspondent, by building housing estates on tbem. " *;.♦ + • ♦ ♦ A new motor cycle is said to have 'every gadget cmcdvabte for the convenience and comfort of: the rider. The pillion seat has pneumatic cushions, chromium-pimted foot-rests, and is fitted with a streamlined blonde. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ "Although I am fond of the river, I simply can't stand canoeing," writes a correspondent. It's awkward enough even wfeen you're sitting in one of tlie things.