Dr Stcrie-Pixson, referring to the Box-t war in the course of a lecture at Sydney reoentlv. stated that in it Britons, French. Germans, Ammcar.j, and Japanese w encaged.. " Were we asked/' said icj doctor, " who were the btst marchers of thee?, wo would unhesitatingly, reply the Britishers, of emme! But this waa not the case, for the Japanese had proved themselves 50 percent, better than the cext best, nation, -which was not Britain, but America. I hope you. feel small," saia tn« doctor." for I do so myself when I think what we mr.v some dav have to face—especially if we have to meet the Japanese, or. for that matter, the Germans either 1 A professor rebuked the hidebound grammarian at a dinner with a story. _ A lady," he. said, "had a. rather dissipated husband, and one evening she said to a friend: ' I wish I knew where Georae was'.' The. friend of the professor's wife said primly: 'I presume, dear, you mean you wish you knew where he ie! So,, I don't/ said the lad v. ' I know where he ib. He is upstairs in bed with bloodshot eyes and a terrific headache. I want to know, where he ifati'"
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Evening Star, Issue 14965, 27 August 1912, Page 4
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