Topics in Brief:

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVI, Issue 21244, 14 January 1939, Page 8

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: We begin to fear that the American standard of living is about to lose the second automobile.—" Virginian Pilot.” * • * • Another good frontispiece for a war history would be a life-size replica of a tax receipt.—“ Publishers Syndicate.” * * * * ‘‘Can one hear colour?" asks ‘‘The Literary Digest.” Naturally, when it[s loud enough.—" Weston (Oregon) Leader.” "Mexican President Flies Over Volcano.” A good many Mexican Presidents have lived on them.—" New York Times.” Now that the influenza germ has been isolated, let it be hoped that it will be kept so. —‘‘Boston Transcript.” "A boxer who underestimates his opponent,” declares a writer, “soon has his eyes opened.” Or closed.—“ The Humorist." Tip to June brides. No matter what love may be able to do to the world, it takes more than that to make a small salary go round. —“Boston ald."Shower baths are .provided on a new type of motor coach. Pedestrians can still obtain one by standing on the kerb on a wet day as the coach goes by.— “The Humorist.” It may be entirely true that the Chicago telephone employees refused a rise in wages, but it sounds to us as if they had been cut off in the middle of a conversation.—" Detroit News.” Another serious thing about life is the fact that so many motorists drive as though there were approximately 26,500,000 fewer automobiles in the United States than there are. —"Nashville Banner.” A funding reported by a meeting of the Mid-west Psychological Association in Chicago is that it takes twice as long for a three-year-old child to get to sleep as an adult. The statistics on adults, we imagine, were compiled in families where there are no three-year-old children.—“ Arkansas Gazette.”