Ginger Nuts.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume III, Issue 189, 26 July 1913, Page 4 (Supplement)

Ginger Nuts.

Tho spat, a fashion note assures us, is dying out. On its last legs, in fact.

“ ‘Many a true word is spoken’—behind our backs” is the new reading of an old saying.

A lady writer declares that a woman will jump to the conclusion while a man is crawlin toward it.

AL R einach says that dancing is one of tho main forms of expressing beauty. Why not leave out the “ex”?

♦ . * . * «• Tho ladies’ maids of Chicago have struck against washing pet dogs. With them cleanliness is not next to dogliri es.

The public, so it is declared, is turning away from sweet champagne. Alan wants but liquor hero below, and wants that liquor dry.

It is said that in Baltimore there are three drink saloons to every policeman. This gives you throo distinct guesses as to where to find the policeman.

Ostriches hide their heads in tho sand when suddenly alarmed. If they would only hide their tails many a husband would save a fortune in millinery bills.

Mr. Carnegie says that if the Japanese : nvado tho United States he "will immediately shoulder a rifle against them in defence of his country. Why not fire free libraries at them?

According to an English contemporary. Mr. Holcombe Ingleby appeared in the House of Commons the other day in a white waistcoat and a pink buttonhole. Evon allowing for the heat wave it seems singularly insufficient.

A man who attended a high-class society dance tho other evening declares that ho was so alarmed when the ladies in fashionable evening gowns began to arrive .that ho slipped away. Of course he was nervous lest thov slipped awiy before him.

She: “Tho doctor has sent mo for :i drug to keep mo awake at nights " Chemist: “That's a strange request. You moan something to make you sleep, mv good woman.” She fconfidentiallvl: “No. I don’t. What I wants is to keep awake, so as T can see what time my husband comes home at nights.”

Chemist ftn assistant): “Jimmy, iuat alio -r®«nd < to the irenmonger’a for » pennywort of tacts.”