Smiles and Similes.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVI, Issue II, 12 January 1901, Page 57

Smiles and Similes.

Anxious.—There is nothing that so increases a man’s desire to work in the garden as the discovery that his wife has misplaced the rake. If a lazy pupil ever wants to practise. it is when the piano is already in use.

Sins of Omission.—Clergyman (examining a Sunday School class): Now, can any of you tel! me what are sins of omission? Small Scholar: Please, sir. they're sins you ought to have committed and haven’t. But music pupils omit them. They omit the hard places, difficult chords, the inner notes generally. They omit to practise their exercises, scales, arpeggios ami etudes, omit their lessons, and sometimes to pay their teacher.

A Commendable Ambition.—Old Gentleman: What would you like to be when yon grow up? Small Boy: I’d like to be a bricklayer. Old Gentleman: That is a commendable ambition. Why would you like to be a bricklayer? .Small Boy: ’Cause there’s so many days when a bricklayer can’t work. Some young people choose music teaching because they think it is such an easy, genteel and agreeable way of earning a respectable living.