WISECRACKS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 4669, 9 July 1936, Page 4

WISECRACKS.

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“Coffee may become cheaper,” says a contemporary. A correspondent says there is a hope that his landlady may . even use it in place of what she makes the coffee with at present. “Noisy neighbours probably date from the earliest times,” says an essayist. We can just imagine a Stone Age •householder Chiselling an indignant note and dropping it expertly on the head of the man next door.

In Surrey a pair of tomtits have nested in an abanloned motor-car. We. understand they have decided to waive all questions of references and sub-let the dickey-seat to a pair of runaw# Canaries. A cry of “Man Overboard!” caused great excitement among, passengers on a Spring cruise in the Mediterranean. But an inconsiderate sailor skilfully threw a rope, and the life - and soul of the. ship was hauled on board.

“When will foolish 'people stop looking for gas\ leaks with lighted candles in their .hands?” asks a writer. When they find gas leaks, with lighted candles in their hands. Many Christmas holiday-makers this year propose to tour -so far by car,, and then walk -the rest. What we usually do is to tour so far by car, and then'trudge back to the last garage for petrol. Frizes for children who make the best sand-castles are again to be offered by a seaside resort. We understand that the small boy who carried off the premier award lastyear for a magnificent Eastern palace with a huge 1 central dome based on a corpulent and comatose, uncle will not be allowed to com-; pete this season. These bright paragraphs comefrom “The New-Idea,” the threepenny weekly paper for Australian and New Zealand women. This; paper offers its readers 80 pages of reading matter of all kinds. You can’t afford to be without it.Now on sale at aIU newsagents—threepence.