RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29831, 25 May 1962, Page 14

RANDOM REMINDER

QUIZ KID

“Did you have a good day?” he asked his wife as he came through the doorway soon after 6 p.m. And he wondered why she showed some evidence of displeasure. He had told her he would be home for lunch, but he had forgotten to come home. She had decided to make —perhaps create is the proper word—a cheese souffle for his lunch. Apparently it is a tricky business. And while she

was getting involved in its intricacies, a man arrived to make some repairs to the lounge door. While he was there, the doctor called. While they were both in the house, the minister arrived. The introductions among the workman, the doctor and the minster had hardly been completed before a friend of the housewife arrived with her three children, and that set them all back several minutes.

Next into the domestic traffic jam came sister-in-law, also with three children. And she stole the show, for in driving up to the house she chanced upon a water main no one knew had burst, and her vehicle went down to the front axles, with the ungainly reluctance of a giraffe at a water-hole. It was about this tim* that the souffle burst into flames. “Did you have a good day?” ha said. WeU.