FLASHLIGHTS

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 150, 22 December 1922, Page 14

FLASHLIGHTS

7 WIT AND" WISDOM IN BRIEF.

To say something witty and wise tvory week is not given to everyone, but' Mr.' Thomas Jay, *ho is mainiy, if not altogether, responsible for t^he droll Charivaria^, which opens each number of "Punch,"/is able to do it. A great many of those sparkles of fun Mr. Jay has collected into, a volume, "Flashlights" (Methuen),' from which the. following are taken.-.with 'apologies and thanks :— : . . ■

A man is known by the clothes his wife wears. '.:

A man can lead a Wdmari to the mir i'or, but he wilt ne'vei' make 1 her see her self as others see her. 1 .

' You can lead a rabbit to the'furrier's but you cannot make it mink. .

Many a young- iflnn. lias out to conquer the world •afid elided up hy getting married. ' .; '

Some men will go through anything for a woman < < . including , her .fortune. ■ . '

It will be a great day when warships can be replaced'by, friendships. There is d long list of things ai. man fcan get for nothing . -. 4 but experifence isn'i orie of tliera.

What a man naeds most in his hour of trial'i is .an acquittal.

An epigram is a short sentence., that taeans a lot, sticli as when the" Judge says "Six months. 1'

During the war We were told xvo were fighting for dear life. And we. have had it ever since. ' ■

A b.et is..money you put on in the hope that it^vill come off. Bagpipes are quite all right if people Will only let them alone.

It has been.said that Scotsmen cannot stand many drinks. It is noticed that some of them don't.

If all the money spent on war by the nations was placed end to' .e,nd, it Would lead to the eohvictioii that War does not

Cheer up. Business might be worse. Just suppose, you were an American Corkscrew importer.