Topics in Brief:

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21180, 29 October 1938, Page 12

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:

Some families stamp out all individuality in the children, while others have to serve five kinds of breakfast foods.—‘Detroit News.” Employees in the tinned fruit factory are encouraged to sing at tlreir work. They make merry while they can.—“ Humorist.”

The United States is to have a new stamp with the White House on it. And a man priming a pump just outside the back door?—“Toronto Star.”

“The New York Times” urges the Long Island to clean up its unsightly right of way for the benefit of World Fair visitors, but the railroad has its own method of dealing with the problem—not washing the windows of the railway carriages.—“ The New Yorker."

A rich man must hire a valet, a laundress, a secretary, a cook and a housekeeper; the poor man he just gets married.”—Liverpool Evening Express.”

“Women with a great deal of money ought to marry business men,” says a writer. Their main difficulty, however, ivill be to avoid doing it.— “Punch.”

A play written by a barrister teas recently performed by an amateur dramatic society in a provincial theatre. In his speech before the curtain on the first night, the author conducted his own defence.—“Humorist.”

The most recentl survey of the Department of Commerce reveals that 20 per cent of the United States’ homes have neither bath tub nor shower. It would be just like some of these welfare workers to ask America’s poor to go without a motor and get a bath tub. —“Commentator.”