LIFE'S LITTLE WANTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 January 1928, Page 5

LIFE'S LITTLE WANTS.

Spirits! '‘Some people think that spirits for inen and -spirits for motor cars have got Mr Coates down this year,'’ said zi delegate to the South Motor Union Ihe other day. * # * * • Of Course!Why are bridges built over rivers? — IBecause they cannot be built under . them. What did the spider do when he •came out of the ark? —Took a Hv and went home. What is most like a half jam sandwich —The other half. "Which sock do you pull off last when going to paddle? —The left one, of .course. When you want to tie up a parcel, why should you go to the piano? —Bejjp&ause you can get cords (chords) from "it. What king wears the largest hat ? The one with the largest head. What is that which has a head, a Tail, and yet no body ? —A penny. Teacher: “Have you any excuse for fo-eing late?” Bov: “Well—or—l did have a good one, but I ran so fast .getting here that the wind blew it out of my head. ’ ’ * * * * Tall Men. Some discussion has been, begun in London by the statement of Mr John ’.Miller, a visitor from St. Louis (U.S.A.), that London seemed to him the one city that was designed for the -comfort of tlie tall man—that was to say, that a man of his own height, which is 6i"t. 3m. He found the tubes, omnibuses, telephone kiosks and theatre entrances designed as though the architect had tall in mind. Also he found in London Jgfeeds long enough for men. lie 'thought from his own observation that London was a city for tall men. ILondon has always had more than its .share of tall men, and the number of -tall men in both Houses of Parliament probably exceeds the number in any -other Legislature in the world, not excepting that of Sweden. Victorian statisticians gave the North of Scotland as the location of our tallest average, but things have changed in that respect. The new methods of education .-and training and hygiene for the young, particularly in the allowance of sleep, ne .nuu'biy had more effect in the -South, where the population with most leisure resides, and where thtre is most opportunity for experiments on a large .scale. .* * * ' * “The Idiotic Yankee.” The particular* mark of Big Bill Thompson, Mayor of Chicago, is Mr "William M* Andrew, the city Superintendent of Schools, who was no minted by‘the last mayor, Mr Denver. “Big Bill” asserts that during Mr McAn■tlrew’s regime the Chicago schools have flooded with history text books by pro-British propagandists. These must be cleared out, and, warming to the work, the Mayor announced that 50 per cent,of the books in the public, libraries bore the same taint and .must be" burnt. This, however, is t■> L-o much. The bonfire was cancelled. Mr McAr.diew.’s case'is being enquired inti Iv the Board of Education, which now consists of “100-per-cent Americans.” The former Board obviously did not, for during the election campaign “Big Bill” asserted that those of its members who were in the British conspiracy working through the school books would have been prosecuted in the criminal courts had not King George personally intervened to save them! * * # ■» Oil Inetrests. ,Five leading American oil companies have acquired an important interest in ..a scheme for the development of the vast oil resources in the Mosul region ■fjf Iraq. After mouths of negotiation, during which difficulties threatened to prevent the participation of American interests .in the project, the Standard Oil Company of New York, the Pan-American Petroleum and Transport Company, the Atlantic Refining Company, and the •Oulf Oil Corporation, have agreed to co-operate with groups in Great Britain, France and Holland, under the direction of the Turkish Petroleum Company, in the development of the area in question. Under the agreement reached, a 25 pc v - eent interest in the development work is granted respectively to a Dutch represented by the Boyal Dutch Shell interests, a British group, repre . teemed by the Anglo-Persian Oil company, and a French group, represented by a separate company, while a company is to be formed in the near future to hold a 2-5 per cent stock interest on behalf of the five American concerns mentioned. It is planned, in connection with this to construct a pipe-line, 400 to L miles, long, from Mosul through Svto the Mediterranean.