HUMOUR MORE OR LESS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16376, 25 June 1927, Page 9

HUMOUR MORE OR LESS

ANOTHER ONE ON THE SCOTCH.

Affable 1 guest (to the bridegroom): They tell me the bride has money, Wul'lie. They say the marriage is worth a guid tower thoosau' poon' tae ye, mon. Canny bridegroom: No' quite that, Tain. Folk forget I hae to pay for the marriage license.

MONEY VALUES.

A famous American banker in Paris recently sent the following cable to a wealthy friend of his in New York: "Your son is drawing rather heavily 20,000 a week. Is it all right?" The reply was couched in the following terms: "If pounds too much; if dollars quite enough; if those little francs, let him have all he wants."

PRACTICAL!

Tt took a great deal of courage. She was his ideal. Soft, fluffy, beautiful. Just the kind of a big-hearted doll lie wanted. But he finally made up his mind to propose, "What would you do," he asked. "if I asked you to be my wife? What would be the outcome?"

"It depends," was the reply, "very much on the income."

REMINDER

A very absent-minded man called upon his old friend, the family physician, one evening. After chatting for a couple of hours the doctor saw him to the door, and as he wtus shaking hands, said: "Come again soon, old chap; family all well, I suppose?" "Goodness," exclaimed his visitor, "that reminds me of my errand. My wife's in a lit."

Y MATTER OF CHOICE.'

Father: Willie, you will have to go to the hospital. Willie: I don't want to go to the hospital. '

Father: But you must., Willie: Well, if I go to the hospital, 1 want a little puppy,, not a baby.

* * tt -X----CHINESE AND SPEAKER.

Near the spot on the Blue Mountains where the Speaker (Mr. Dooley) held up the Duke and Duchess of York lo unveil a hospital tablet there formerly lived a Chinese gardener, who was a Labor stalwart. Asked on the eve'of an election for whom he intended to vole, he replied: 'Jim Dooley and White Australia evly time!''