HUMOUR

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17238, 19 April 1930, Page 9

HUMOUR

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Only Way. "You are working too hard," said Ihe doctor. "I know it," sighed the patient, "but it is the only way 1 can keep up the easy payments," «' » * « Spenders. Two small boys were boasting about the wealth of their respective fathers. "My father," said one, "has so much money that he doesn't know how to spend it." "That's nothing," retorted the other, "my father has so much that my mother doesn't know how to spend it,'" # * • • Wonderful. Isn't wireless wonderful? Think of the jazz bands, the sopranos, the bedtime stories, the speeches, the poetry, and the thousand and one things you can silence with one little turn of a dial. * # « • Careful. Tripper (having watched golfer drive)—What's 'e do now, "'ErbertV Herbert—Walks after it and 'its it again. Tripper—Do 'o? Lor lumme, then I should lake jolly good care not to 'it un too fur. " i » # # # Suffering. Performers for the talkies are now said to be liable to an affection of the throat. Hitherto it has been supposed that any suffering involved was confined to members of the audience. • « # » The Contrary Sex. "An' yo' say tlat little twin 'baby am a gal?" inquired Parson Jones, of one of his colored ilock. " Yessah." "An' de other one. Am dat of the contrary sex?" "Yessah. She am a gal, too." * * # * Tut-Tut! All judicial humor, fortunately, is not retrospective. .While some judges dig it up from the past, others are busy extracting it from the present. A* little while ago it was stated before a well-known fudge thai a company was to run a revue named "King Tut-Tut." His Honor rubbed his brow. "What, does 'Tut-Tut' mean?" he inquired. "It is an expression," replied counsel, "used on the golf links when a man misses his drive." "You mean, when the clergy are present," suggested the judge, amid laughter.