BY THE WAY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20277, 11 April 1934, Page 5

BY THE WAY.

Some Collections and Reflections. (BY ONE OF THE BOYS.) “ It seems to me, Mary, that you’re marrying very hastily. What is the policeman’s name?” “I don’t know his name, but I’ve got his number.” j.j ».* The schoolmaster was explaining vulgar fractions. “If I take a potato, cut it in half, then in quarters, and then in halves again, what shall I have?” he asked. “Chips, sir,” was the immediate response. “You were always a fault-finder!” growled the wife. “ Yes, dear.” responded the husband, meekly, “ I found you.” »,• ».♦ jj Ethel: “ She’s sorry enough that she married him. 111 wager.” Mabel: “ The idea! How can you say that? He thinks her a perfect angel, and treats her ” “As though she really were. one. He doesn’t buy her anything to wear.” The vicar’s wife gave a lecture to the women of the parish on matters domestic. She covered a wide range of subjects—cooking, illness and the care of babies —and at the end invited questions upon any matters she had failed to embrace. One woman rose. “ Please, mum,” she said, “ you hain’t told us wot you do when the vicar comes ’ome tight.”