"PERFECT WOMAN."
| WHY TURKS ARE BRAVE. Those who feel joy at finding a re.dly fresh "howler" will gain ample entertainment from a collection of such lapses of the schoolboy mind printed in the 'University Correspondent' (London). The following are selections:— Quotation from Wordsworth: "A perfect woman nobly planned To wariUj to comfort and command." The courage of the Turks is explained by the fact that a man with more than one wife is more willing to face i death than if he had only one. \Finally James 11. gave birth to a son, and so the people turned him off the throne. After twice committing suicide, Gowper lived till 1800, »hen he died a natural death. The Tropic of Cancer is a painful and incurable disease. When Chaucer describes the Prioress as amiable of port he means that she was fond of wine. When the last French attack at Water> 100 proved a failure Napoleon turned very pale and rode at full gallop to St. Helena. Henry IV. was the son of John o' Groats. Much butter is imported from Dens' mark, because Danish cows have \ greater enterprise and superior technical education to ours. The Three Estates of the Realm are Buckingham Palace, Windsor, and Balmoral. Die Mediterranean and the Red Sea are joined by the Sewage Canal, 'ataract is the name of the mountain on which the Ark rested. ill appendix is a portion of a In ok which nobody has yet discovered to be of any use. .'iti elephant is a square animal with a tail in front and behind. The Flannelette peril means petticoat government. Woman's suffrage is the state of suffering in which they were born. A candidate for the Civil Service must bo a neutralised British subject. The Immortal William is a phrase applied to the German Emperor.
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Mt Benger Mail, 11 March 1914, Page 4
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