Shaun’s Patch

Southland Times, Issue 21996, 21 April 1933, Page 6

Shaun’s Patch

A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men. —Hudlbras.

In Britain a man is innocent until he is proved guilty; in Russia he is innocent until the Government says he’s guilty.

If we could see ourselves as others see us, the chances are we wouldn’t look again.

The wicked man’s song has a rousing chorus, but the reformer’s song is all refrain.

EDUCATIONAL AIDS. Give a sentence containing the word “fundarpental”: “The fundamental soon be exhausted.”

The version after a “wee Scot’s nicht” micht be:

Should oiled acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind?

Should oiled acquaintance be forgot In days of oiled Lang Syne?

The nearest approach to sympathy with Europe in the United States is in the fact that the United States has gone off the gold standard.

From Manchuria has come the announcement that the Chinese have decided not to annoy the Japanese troops any more for a while.

As a result the Japanese will not have to advance any further within the Great Wall in their defensive war. THE INNOCENTS. When the sculptor said he had to devote all his time to a bust, she urged his friends to have a prohibition order issued against him.

It is all very well to tell people to give until hurt, but some people are so easily hurt.

In democratic systems the trouble is not the cost of electing parliaments but the upkeep.

The idea that a new monetary system will lift New Zealand out of all its troubles seems very like the one that if the graph shows that prices are falling you can rectify the position by turning the graph upside down.

U.S.A, is said to have gone off the gold standard. She wants to remember the golden rule standard.

FAMOUS STANDARDS. Royal . Yard. Gold . Lamp . Fourth . -—— Rose. Oil. lb. — Lamp.