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Taranaki Daily News, 17 December 1926, Page 16 (Supplement)

DO YOU KNOW— What it is man loves more than life? Hates more than death or mortal strife? That which contented men desire? The poor have, the rich require? The miser spends, the spendthrift saves ? And all men carry to their graves? Answer: Nothing.

“rpiIAINS badly hit by road ’buses,” A wails a southern newspaper. They ought to get out of the way, its the rest of us have to do 1 “TN furnishing a house,” says a lady A expert, “one should aim at colours that Inspire aad furniture that thrills.” To make the effect complete it would perhaps be as well to throw in a moving staircase. “TLTARRIAGE is very like a cross'LT'L word puzzle,” said a clergyman at a recent wedding. Just the sort of thing to take on for a spell, comments the cynic. Rut it isn’t so easy in marriage (unless you happen to be a film star) to rub out. "A LEARNED professor tells us that it is only an accident that our blood is red. Exactly! If our grandfathers had subscribed more liberally to party funds it might have been quite blue by this time 1 'T'llE Bavarians are proposing to forbid the use of English words like ’“sport” and “gentleman.” . But the difficulty is that in the German .language there is no equivalent! '