REVOKED.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 February 1931, Page 21 (Supplement)

REVOKED.

The golfer missed' the ball three “But I’m not playing cards, lemon strated the. unfortunate player, ' “All the same,’’ was the reply, y have been playing a spade instead ot a club.” * * * ■WHO, INDEED?

All through his long illness his better half had been his devoted nurse. Offen he had awakened in the silence of the night to find hef sitting by his bedside with soothing draughts and gentle symhe was well on the way to reC °“Mary, I shall never forget it,” he fold her. “Your sweetness to me through this trying time shall always be like a golden copper in my memory. Whv did vou do it?” . He paused dramatically, hoping to hear a whispered confession that he love was the great motive. Instead, she replied calmly; “Well, John, who wants a widow with four children? « # « • OPPORTUNITY KNOCKS.

Stranger: “I represent a society for the prevention of profanity. 1 want to take profanity entirely out of jour l*f and — 1 Jone'l: “Hey, riiother! Here’s the nian who wants to buy our car. # # * * LIKE EDISON.

Biggs: “And what have you decided to call the new ba by?” Wi2"s: “Edison.” Bianifi; “Edison! Why, do you think be possesses some of the charaeteii? ic of the great inventor makes you choose th Wig<xs™“Well Edison 6ay? foqr hours’ sleep Ts enough for any man.” • « * • PUZZLING PERKINS. When Perkins met an old schoo! acquaintance in town who persuaded him to stayJand have a little dinner he wir ed “Mis h sed W tlie six-thirty. DWtkeep eventually reach home. His wife him at the door. “Get my menage, dear? askeu ler-

“Yps,” answered his wife, shortly. “But I would lik«! to hear how j.ou sent me a wire at five saying you had missed the six-thirty.”