BY THE WAY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20561, 12 March 1935, Page 5

BY THE WAY.

Some Collections and Reflections. BY ONE OF THE BOYS. A northern mayor says the position is not a bed of roses. There is much give and take about the Mayor’s job. Give aid and take back chat. The question is asked, “ Are the police just?” The man-in-the-street says “ only just.” A Lutheran Synod has denounced dancing. Does it prefer an evening spent in a car on a lonely road or on a seat on the river bank? When writing love-letters to your girl it’s always an act of precaution to begin: “My dear sweetheart and gentlemen of the jury.” The movie manager was furious. “.What’s the matter?” asked his assistant. “Is anything wrong?” “ Anything wrong?” he snorted. “ Why, you’ve advertised for next week: ‘ Smiling Eyes—with a strong cast ’! ” ' j.j j.j 55 ".Vow, if T write ‘ n-e-w ’ on the blackboard, what does that spell?” “ New.” “ Now I’ll put a ‘ k ’ in front of it and what have we?” “ Canoe.” “ Almost every man can find work if he uses his brains,” asserted the mar. who had travelled a good deal—“ that is, if he has the ability to adapt himself like the piano-tuner I once met in the West of America. ** ‘ Why,* I said to him, for we were in a wild, unsettled country, ‘ surely piano-tuning can’t be very lucrative here? I should not imagine that pianos were very plentiful in this region.* “' No, they’re not,’ said the pianottmer, 4 but I make a pretty fair income by tightening up barbed-wire fences! ’ ”