Topics in Brief:

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21216, 10 December 1938, Page 12

Topics in Brief:

i Readers are invited to furnish lor publication tn this column, pertinent > and witty extracts (the briefer the better), from newspaper and magazine articles, such as: t “American I oxers are usually fm? [business men,” we are informed. 17? 5 . notice they usually clinch a good deal. I— “ The Humorist” (London). I .... The mystery grows how, in Egypt’s ■ pre-cigarette times, Cleopatra contrived i\to remain so lithe and kissable.—“Vir- | ginian Pilot.” I A let of folks now sigh for the good \cld days when all this country had to ' fear was an attack from the Indians. E I— " Wichita Eagle.” ’i* • ♦ * r 1 A correspondent wants to know what ■ iis the best thing to take ivhen run t down. The number of the car, we suggest.—“ The Humorist” (London). )I* * * * . ’ Sometimes the bulls are on top, and . I sometimes the bears, but there is never 1 any question as to who is in the middle. 5 —“American Lumberman” (Chicago). * * * * The town misogynist says this “vest- . pocket cruiser” is not original with the Germans —that his wife has explored his pockets regularly for years.—“Detr | roit News.” 3 A Paris court has ruled that a hus2 band may open his wife’s mail. France 2 is moving rapidly to secure complete * equality between the sexes.—“ Rochester Democrat Chronicle.” t According to a naturalist, mosquitoes i are capable of travelling long distances. - We shouldn’t mind that at all, if only - they didn't stop for refreshments so i often. —“The Humorist.” s * * * j Wc had almost neglected to mention t the fact that this is National Poetry j week. Poetry, you know, is that in- - dustry which yields the writer so many _ returns if he encloses stamps.—“ Boston s 1 Herald.” i i ,