Topics in Brief:

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIII, Issue 20675, 13 March 1937, Page 11 (Supplement)

Topics in Brief:

Readers are Invited to furnish for publication In this column, pertinent and witty extracts (the briefer the better), from newspaper and magazine articles, such as:

And about the only man Ipho has a tougher time than a private in a Chinese army, is a Chinese general.— “Judge.”

A New Yorker who for 50 years has trained after-dinner speakers is giving it up. But what good is it now to say he is sorry.—“Ranjor Commercial”

The Federal Government transferred its gold to Fort Knox, Kentucky, with a fanfare of secrecy.—“ Atlanta Journal.”

Gas masks designed for civilians in war make humanity look as much like an ass as going to war proves they are.—“ Dallas News.”

Mussolini says that democracy is done for, alleges this is the day of dominant personalities. Some folks are mean enough to say that he was alluding to a certain dominant Italian. —“Talsin Wold.”

Quite unlike the preceeding one was the recent inauguration. This time the bursting banks were along the tributaries of the beautiful Ohio.— “Portland Oregonian.”

A Californian woman, whQ is seeking a divorce, declares that her friends dropped her because her husband persisted in dropping in on their afternoon bridge club and making “catty remarks.” It couldn’t be, of course, that some of the “girls” objected to this outside competition. Boston “Herald.”