A facetious writer in. the Wellington 4 Post.' treats of “ old jokes/* and among other things observes: “The duty of listening to a plenitude of old jokes as the penalty w© have to pay for living. The longer we live the larger grows the audible supplyTherefore Providence is kind in limiting the days of man to threescore years and ten. Poor Melchizedek must have suffered dreadful torture in his 900 th year after year." Poor Methuselah, if he now reads “funny columns/’ may well complain that after standing 900 years of old jokes it is hard another fellow should set the It is beyond a joke. .
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Evening Star, Issue 12687, 13 June 1907, Page 6
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106Page 6 Advertisements Column 5 Evening Star, Issue 12687, 13 June 1907, Page 6
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