SAYING

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23955, 3 May 1941, Page 2 (Supplement)

SAYING

HP HE Dedham (Massachusetts) Court has granted a divorce to William A. Seeley because his wife kept 17 cats and nine dogs in their home. —British United Press. Compressed Novel 'PHE extremes to which we shall be reduced if paper rationing becomes still stricter: All ringed and bangled, At nio you angled, With ways new-fangled, Your bait you dangled. Yet ere bells jangled, We two had wrangled, Our lovo was tangled. . . . My heart was mangled! —Nigel Morland. "Esquire" A WOMAN correspondent has protested against the "snobbery" of men who have "Esq." attached to their names on letters. To put "Esquire" on an envelope instead of "Mr." is not snobbery, but politeness. Many years of experience have taught me that the use of "Mr." on the envelope of a business letter is the sign of a second-rate firm, akin to poor stationery and bad typing. —Norman Williams. Burry Port, Carmarthenshire.

Shake-up rVUTSIDE a London night club a w taximan was hailed by the doorman, who packed four very "jolly" guests into the cab. "That one on the left goes to Park Lane," he explained; "the one next him to Jermyn Street. Tho one on the left front seat goes to Picadilly, and the fourth to Knightsbridge." With an understanding nod, the taximan drove off. In a few minutes he returned and hailed the doorman. "Would you mind sorting out these blokes again?" lie asked. "I hit a bump in Trafalgar Squaro." —S. Green, Liverpool "Gutter" and Gout TF you had a three-bottle grandfather who died of gout (will those heroic days ever return?) you not care to associate his expensive complaint with the half-round, castiron channels which deal with the water from your roof. Yet they aro essentially connected, both coming from the Latin "gutta, a drop—a drop too much, in the one easel —Lawrence W. Meynell, London.