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Evening Star, Issue 22798, 5 November 1937, Page 15

A self-styled reformer was watching a trench being dug by modern machine methods. He said to the superintendent: “This machine has taken jobs from scores of men. Why don’t you junk that machine and put 100 men in that ditch with shovels ?” The superintendent promptly retorted: “Or better still, why not put 1.000 men in there with teaspoons !” Husband: “ How much did you pay for the eggs?” AVife; “I had to pay 2s 6d a dozen.” Husband; “ Well, we can’t afford to eat eggs when they’s as hi"h ns that. Put ’em down in the cellar and keep ’em till they gets