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New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 7, 18 February 1925, Page 62

AUNTIE'S HANDICAP.

“Why did the moon beam?” the young man asked his aunt. She said she did not know. “Because,” said he, “the Aouds broke.” The old lady declared emphatically that she could not see the joke. “You can’t see it?” he cried. “Why, it’s so plain I should have thought you couldn’t help seeing . it!” “I’m sorry, my dear, but I can’t,” the old lady, assured him. “Unfortunately, I’ve come out without my spectacles.” THE LAWYER AND THE EDITOR. A lawyer who occupied an editor’s room one night thought to make a joke at the expense of his host, and sent him the following lines; I slept in an. editor’s bed last night, When no other chanced to be nigh; So I thought, as I slept in the editor’s bed How easily editors lie. . But the editor was equal to the occasion, for he sent the following lines to the lawyer: If the lawyer slept in the editor’s bed When no other chanced to be nigh, And though he has written, and naively said, How easily editors lie. He must then admit, as he lay on that bed, And slept to his heart’s - desire, Whate’er he may say of the editor’s bed—’Twas the lawyer himself was the lier!

SMILE RAISERS. Mother; “Don’t ask so many questions, Katie. Don’t you know that curiosity once killed a cat?” Katie: “What did the cat want to know, mother?” *? Tiny Girl; “And I shall have a motor car.” Tiny Boy: “So shall I.” “And a carriage and pair.” “So shall I.” “I believe, Peter, you’re ; what they call a ‘ so-shall-ist.’ ” * She; “When a man who bores me terribly asks me where I live I always say in the suburbs.” He: “How clever! And where do you really live?” “In the suburbs.” *? “That idiot next door threw a stone through the window while I was playing a Russian piece on the piano.” “Silly fellow! Now he will hear you all the plainer.” “Father, I have found my true vocation at last! I don’t want to be a business man I want to be a musician.” “All right, my boy, only don’t ever dare to come and play in front of my house.”