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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 18, 20 July 1935, Page 20

SMILE AWHILE

SMILE AWHILE

Persistent Woman Reporter: What would you do if you jumped, out of the aeroplane and your parachute would not open?

Fed-up Aviator : Go back and fetch another.

-'•Honestly, now, you would never have thought this car of mine was one 1 bad bought second-hand, would you?" : "Never in the world, I thought you had made it yourself."

A terrifle clatter- was heard coming from the kitchen. !

"Horrors I" exclaimed Mrs. Smith. "What is that noiso?" . ' .. . :

"Sure, mum," came the voice of Bridget tho maid, "you don't expect mo to break sis plates and two dishes without any noise." :

Jack: Daddie look mo to Lonaon yesterday and we had a Turkish bath. i Jill: That's nothing. We use Turkish towels every day at home.

Seeing an old negro whitewashing his cbickeuhouso a visitor stopped and spoke.

"Say; Sambo," he said, "if you were to use a bigger brush you'd do twice as much work."

"Is dat so?" queried Sambo. "But you see, massa, I habn't got twice as much work to do." ,

Fattier: How is it you have not done your school home work? > Son: I hare decided not to do any more. It is not fair. We children do tho work and the teacher gets paid, for it.

Two small girls were playing together one afternoon In the park. -

"I wonder what time it is?" said one of them at last. ■

"Well, it can't be 4 o'clock yet," replied the other, "because my mother said I was to bo home at 4—and I'm not."

"If I cut a steak In two, and tbeu cut each part in two, what do I get?" asked tho teacher. "Quarters," replied the pupil. "Then if. I. cut each part into four?" "Sixteenths." "Corroct," said the teacher. "Then each part into two again?" "Thirty-seconds." "And again cutting each part Into two?" queried tho teacher. "Minced beef,"'replied tho pupil.