IN LIGHTER VEIN What Other People Are Saying

Greymouth Evening Star, 6 February 1947, Page 4

IN LIGHTER VEIN What Other People Are Saying

Paper Shortage. Some monthly periodicals have become so small that it is difficult to prevent their theft from public libraries. The release of additional newsprint may mark the end of pocketed editions.—Punch, London. Playing the Game. Postmen are proposing to strike as a protest against people not members of their union taking part in Postman’s Knock. —John le Neve in London Opinion. Substitute. A County Cork man who swallowed a penknife has been operated on three times for its recovery without success. In the meantime he is using a pencil sharpener.—Dublin Opinion. How to be Funny. It’s not at all hard to write funny paragraphs. All you have to do is procure a pen, some paper and ink, and sit down and write them as they occur to you. It is not the writing but the occurring that is hard.—Tatler and Bystander, London. Wardrobe. The modern girl wears just as many clothes as her grandmother, but not at the same time. —Fredericton Daily Gleaner. Post-War Problems. Prison reform, says an M.P., is urgently required. The conditions in some of our gaols, we understand, are almost as bad as they are outside. — London Opinion. Name. The housewife had moved from Norfolk to a London borough. “We must know the name of your Norfolk milkman,” they told her at the Food Office. » “But I don’t know it,” she said. “Then find out,” they instructed. A week later she came in again. “I’ve got that milkmans’ name,” she said. “It’s Tom.”—Evening News, London. Shades. In our home town there were several venerable tobacco ch ewers whose beards were forever amber. —Kitchener Daily Record. “Oh, This Old Thing.” Just compliment a woman on a dress if you want to find out how many years she has had it.—Chatham Daily News.