BY THE WAY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20282, 17 April 1934, Page 5

BY THE WAY.

Some Collections and Reflections. BY ONE OF THE BOYS. Nell: “What would you give to have such hair as mine?” Belle: “I don’t know; what did you give?” “ Yes,” said the bride of a week, “ Jack tells me everything he knows, and I tell him everything I know.” “ Indeed,” rejoined her ex-rival. “ The silence when you are together must be oppressive.” Mr Newlywed was anxious to learn. "Is your wife economical?” lie asked an old friend. “ Yes,” was the reply. “ Only recently she worked out how to save ten shillings a week by doing her own housework.” “ How did it work?” “She got a cookery book, I got dyspepsia, and the doctor got ten shillings.” At a marriage the minister was at a loss to discover the bridegroom among the company of young men present. Fixing on a young man with a large flower in his buttonhole, he asked him, quietly, “ Are you the happy man?” “That remains to be seen,” was the solemn answer. “ But are you the man who is to be married?” “Oh, that’s another matter.”