TRY TO SMILE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume X, Issue 13, 1 April 1893, Page 312

TRY TO SMILE.

When you get a pretty girl on one side of the net and a good looking young man on the other, tennis ‘singles’ are apt to be ‘ doubles ’ before you know where you are. Country parson (to bereaved widow of a doctor): ‘ I cannot tell you how pained I was to hear that your husband had gone to heaven. We were bosom friends, but now we shall never meet again.’ The great problem of the age is how to make a sailing vessel go when there is no wind. We have seen sail-boats go beautifully without any wind. They were put up at auction, and went for a mere song. THE INVINCIBLE HOWLING SUCCESSOR. A man may stop a foaming horse tearing down the street. May stop an enemy’s advance amid the battle's heat: In fact, stop almost anything in situations trying ; But not a single man alive can stop a baby crying. Another Kind.—She : ‘ Why, Charlie, what a pile of letters. Billets doux, I suppose.’ He: ‘Not at my time of life, my dear. Billets overdue. Through Without Change —‘Well, well,’sighed the wife as she finished exploring her sleeping husband’s pockets without having discovered a cent, ‘ this is like one of those railway journeys, “going through without change.’ Mrs Flapjack : ‘You have been flirting with my daughter, and last night you even went so far as to kiss her. Now I want to know what are your intentions?’ Boarder : ‘ My intentions are never to do so again.’ She : ‘ Darling, am I the first girl you ever kissed ?’ He : ‘No, dearest, but you’re the last‘one.’ ‘Oh, you don’t know how happy it makes me to know that.’