Shaun’s Patch

Southland Times, Issue 25302, 4 June 1935, Page 8

Shaun’s Patch

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One thing about Prof. Einstein’s theories is that they don’t cost the taxpayers anything.' - ♦ * Uh # Mussolini is a greater man than Hitler. He’s a dictator and he’s married. « * * * Californian newspapers have been printing a story about a man who is turning into an ape. Looks like evolution’s come-back. » » # * If you are still a member of the League of Nations, you don’t call it war: that’s all. * « * 4t EDUCATIONAL AIDS. Give a sentence containing “climate”: “If you come to a peak climate.” * ¥ * * THE INNOCENTS. She wondered why his wife didn’t object to his being made a knight bachelor. *«* . • Long, long ago it was When every day I’d be Shown the way to save the world Just with technocracy. $ Japan’s expeditions to Shanghai and Manchuria were precautionary measures. Italy appears to have caught the idea. * * ♦ ♦ FAMOUS LEADERS. From C.S.S — on McDuff. kindly light. We follow who can. Times -ers. ing questions. Pack er. The blind ing the blind. The Fuhrer. A dog chain. * * * * In the United States doctors are permitted to deduct for income tax purposes the cost of magazines kept in waiting rooms. This looks like carrying business of the previous financial year in to the return. * * # ♦ C.S.S. says: It is written that the meek shall inherit the earth. ’Struth, and him a land agent . . . with parliamentary aspirations. * » * * The periodical “Great Thoughts” published these proverbs under the heading Sesquipedalian Grandiloquence:— Bear not to yon fair city on the Tyne The carbonaceous product of the mine. Cryptogamus concretion never grows On rocky fragments that decline repose.

While self-inspection it neglects, Nor its own foul condition sees, The kettle to the pot objects Its sordid superficies. Teach not a parent’s mother to extract The embryo juices of the egg by suction, That good old lady can the feat enact Quite irrespective of your kind instruction. Let those in virtuous tenements who dwell Forbear the flinty missile to propel. Inhabitants of domiciles of vitreous formation With lapidary fragments should never make jactation. Your immediate environment submit to circumspection Ere you alter your loyalty by muscular projection. They are not difficult to discover. Can you find them?