THE LIGHT COLUMN.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12000, 13 February 1920, Page 6

THE LIGHT COLUMN.

ALLEGED HUMOUR. ODE TO EDUCATION. I used to have to go to school. I much despised tbe might and main By which it was impressed I had A brain. 1 hesitated just as much To grace the high school’s classic hall. I’d not. if I’d had my way, have gone At all. Advantages of colleges Were thrust down my unwilling throat. And I felt I was being made The goat. My parents ever forced me on And on through education’s ranks. They said that some day they’d receive My thanks And now I clerk for meagre pay, Hodcarriers do thrice as well. While I’m a slave unto the H. O.L.* ' Kansas Star. F.D.D. *High .Cost of Living. Passenger—Can I get any liquid refreshment here, my lad? Boy—Noa, Zur! Only tay ah’ coffee! Percy—Were yon ever in a railway clis&s 9 joe—Yes; I once kissed the wrong girl in a tunnel. - Mrs A—Your husband always dresses so quietly. Mrs B —Docs he? Well, yon ought to hear him when he loses a ‘collar stud! Wayson—Are you going to marry Miss Banks?I' Rhodes —x really can’t say. She is my objective, and her mother is my objection. Ken—Just one, dearest! You’ll be the first girl I ever kissed, f Eileen—Oh, is that so? Turn your ace this way and I’ll show you how. The Man—Madam, I am the piano tuner. The Woman —I didn’t send for a piano tuner. The Man— l know it, lady. The neighbours did.