BY THE WAY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18013, 25 November 1926, Page 7

BY THE WAY.

SOME REFLECTIONS AND COLLECTION(By One of the Boys). When women are on the road their, gay and nude, stockings may by their prominence save them from being run over, but it’s when. she., is on the footpath the damage is done. They distract the motorist’s eyes and then any mere male on the road goes^west. In “Stella's” column is ad-\-ice to engaged girls. It says: “Sheer propinquity always will be the easiest part, of the game of love.” One of our babies tore up our dictionary, so I don’t, know what “propinquity” is, but if all my wife tells me about the modern flapper is correct, I can guess at it. At. the Hospital Board meeting Mr Clyde Carr proposed that everyone over the age of 40 should be compelled to submit to an anuual medical examination. What he must have meant, surely, was a mental examination. Funny language! A man deliberately gets drunk and deliberately speeds and people call the climax an accident. She is getting a little desperate if she is beginning to say that she. doesn’t object to baldness. I*2 2*2 2*2 About the easiest way to satisfy your soul and your envy of an enemy is to be more decent than he is. Independence is fine but if you don’tv care what people think of you they soon stop thinking you at all. Children don’t cling to the modem's apron strings. She hasn’t any children and she havsn't. any apron. The negro preacher had successfully concealed the fact that he had served a terrain the penitentiary, bht long years of upright living had lulled his fear of exposure. One Sunday on rising to begin his sermon his heart sank on seeing in one of the front pews a former cell mate. Quick thinking Was necessary. He turned over a few leaves hastily to gain time, and then filing his eye on the stranger he said impressively:— “Ah takes ma text dis mornin’ from de sixty-fo’ chapter an’ de fo’ hundre’th verse ob de Gospel of Saint John, which says, ‘Dem as sees me, an’ knows me, an' says nothin’, dem will ah see later.” Everybody has heard the story of the Scotchman who rushed up after a railway accident, and on hearing from one of the injured that the ambulance had not arrived, decided to lie down Among the injured. A better story comes from Otago about a man and his wife who been in a railway accident. A friend sympathising with him, but expressed hope that he would get suitable compensation. “Ah, yes.” he said, “but I don't suppose I would have got a farthing if I hadn’t had the presence of mind to step on my wife’s face." 2*2 2*2 2*2 A little girl had been reprimanded for using the word devil, and warned not to use it again. On her return from church the following Sunday* she was asked what the sermon was about. "I can’t remember it all,” she said, “but it- was about the gentleman who keeps hell.” The Fire Brigade men would have -enjoyed their trip more this morning if they had heard the remark of an old lady in Manchester Street: “Well, they’re nice and clean, anyway." A writer in the Book Page yesterday said that “he felt more conservative after a bottle of good wine than before; which confirms the general impression that there is a deep-seated connection between good liquor and enthusiasm for the existing order.” That’s rough on L. M. Isitt and Henry Holland. The Scotchman in our house has been making terribly ostentatious noises over his porridge since he heard the Beauty Contest result. R « X If one woman can steal another's husband she doesn’t gain much and the other doesn’t lose much. There are many men who do not owe their success to their wives. They are bachelors. A politician is a man who can fan a prejudice until it blazes into a cause. It is suspected that the devil gets some of his ideas from human beings. Avoid debt. It seldom happens that a man loses his memory and wanders away if his debts are paid. Nine words that seal a man’s doom: “They will make their home with the bride’s parents.” Life is much like a motor. The faster you drive a car the less mileage ypu get per gallon. 2*2 2*2 2*2 Ah, well; every time a boat is rocked the world’s average of intelligence is raised a fraction. If you don’t love your wife any more it just proves that you used d-rned poor judgment.