LIFE’S LITTLE WANTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 3 January 1928, Page 4

LIFE’S LITTLE WANTS.

The Fish Story. Wife: How many fish did you catch last Sunday, dearest, Hubby: Six, darling. Wife: I thought so; that is the quantity you always catch. That rascally fishmonger has charged us for eight. •***■* Smoking. This appeared in the London Observer 100 years ago:—“Our readers will see that since our attack on the bestial custom of cigar smoking, which has been followed up by the ‘John Bull,’ there are symptoms of the nuisance abating. The filthy custom, however, brought three Cambridge men into a fracas at Yauxliall last week, and a humiliating appearance at the police court the following morning. We hope that the ‘smoking’ they got from the crowd will be a lesson to them and a warning to others.” « • * * Betting Profits. Possibly there are very few punters who take the trouble to keep an annual account of their financial experiences of the racing game. However, there is a man in. Adelaide who has done so, and he has now made available his ledger covering 21 years of backing racehorses. He shows a profit, but it is less than £1 for each year. The backer started to keep his accounts on June 1, 1906, and during that period all his investments have been made on the totalisator. He has invested and received from the machine £3200, and that is big money when it is' realised that he never bets more than £1 on a race, his usual wager being 10s or ss. His profit over the 21 years amounts to £1 11s.