THINK TWICE.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 11, 14 July 1928, Page 15

THINK TWICE.

When is a man like borrowed money 1 —When he is a loan (alone). What fruit tree never grows by itself!— The pear tree—it is always a pear (pair). When is a train not a train?— When :it is due (dew). • 1 ■ i' Which flower is nicest on dry brcadf —Tho buttercup. Which islands are the best to eat?— > The Sandwich Islands. I What animal does a man-of-war gen- j erally have f—A ram. ' A WORD SQUABE.' ; Here is a simple word square to try: ' The four words are each of four let*' ters and read the same along and down' wards: Robust. An air or song. Moves * ■ perpendicularly. Consumes. A NEW KIND OF SHORTHAND. If you received this as a bit of a letter to you, jvould you be mystified to know what it was all about? Read it "carefully and try to discover what it says before you look at the longhand way of it below. S "' (S My—was mo/d to get very Xon the ( JOHN x (S to Noon one it had begun—,& I was distressed to . TH 0 ■> that he had sustained a com£fracDIB , ture o an arm. It meant much Xd to me — •BE he was well again. ... This is what it is meant to say:— "My son John was inclined to got very cross on the Bands. One afternoon it had begun to thunder, and I was distressed to discover that hs had. sustained a compound fracture of an arm. It meant much expense to mo before he was well again..., " Did you manago it? ' What has three feet and yet cannot run?—A yard. I'm so sorry, aid I tread on your foot that time? Oh, no, not that time.