BY THE WAY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18641, 19 December 1928, Page 9

BY THE WAY.

SOME COLLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS.

(By One of the Boys.) Wife: “You have not kissed ine for a week.” Professor: “Good heavens! Now, who could I have been kissing all this week?” If you want to make an Australian angry tell him that his favourite menu is Hammond eggs. X X X A Mr Parker, of New York, sold the Brooklyn Bridge to a rube and got a life sentence. His original object probably was to provide himself with a settled future, so he got what he wanted. X X X Colonel Smith advised the High School bo vs on Monday night that they should play cricket “ with a straight bat, and with nothing crooked about it.” I don’t know. As a strong Aussie supporter, I think that Hammond should be compelled to play with one of Harry Lauder's walking sticks. X X X I don’t approve of the proposed ban on Australian cricketer-writers. They’ll be making them behave like amateurs next. X X X The Kellogg Pact, I’m satisfied, Will never now be ratified. The other gents who want a navy Have got old F.B. in the gravy. X X X Bolivia and Paraguay Are so far away That the League says wait-a-bit Let them work up their hate-a-bit. lion W. B. Taverner Says, next year, he’ll be havin’ a Tour of the railways, (Sometimes called failways or snailways). About the only interesting thing in this test cfricket is to see who Australia is going to pick next. XXX I agree with a speaker at the Junior Reform League’s dance last night, that it would be a good thing if they knew something about politics—if only as a change from jazz. By the way, how long do they remain junior? Until they get married and forget all about it —or does the idle period between elections qualify them as full-blooded Reformers? Some doctors get quite in a huff If a nurse doesn’t wear a starched cuff. The patients, of course, Can get well or get worse, If the nurse with the starch does her stuff. XXX Did you see that cable about the Polish railwaymen who had a collision out of spite for one another? Couldn’t the traffic cops at Hereford Street and Cashel Street have a lot of fun? XXX Another case of Gullible’s travels—the man who bought Brooklyn Bridge. And that reminds me. A gent said he would let me have a really good fox terrier cheap. Well, I bit, and was surely sold a pup. I think I’ll call it Brooklyn. XXX I see that this man who is going to finake a movie picture in Christchurch will include a “villainous reporter.” Please, Mr Editor, you ought to know, are there any others?