SMILE RAISERS.

New Zealand Tablet, 23 October 1919, Page 46

SMILE RAISERS.

"Papa, where is atoms?" asked the six-year-old boy. "Atoms? I don't know, my boy. .'Athens,' you probably mean," answered tho father. "No," answered the lad; "atoms, I mean; the place where everything is blown to."

Dauber: "I got more than I expected for my last picture." Friend: "Why, I thought your landlord agreed to take it in lieu of next month's rent." Dauber: "Yes, but he raised my rent."

Freda, unless she was asleep, was always just going into mischief or just coming out. It was "Don't do this!" and "Don't touch that!" from morning till night. In fact, the little girl had - been consistently naughty for a week, and her mother was in despair. "Really, child," she said at last, "I should think you would get tired hearing me talk to you so much." In most decided tones the child returned : "Well, mother, I do."

"Don't you know what happens to boys who play truant from Sunday school to play football?" asked the spectacled spinster spiritual sponsor of one of her black "Yes, miss," replied the little urchin. "Some of 'em gets to be good players, and then they gets lots of money from the big leagues."