Yes, P-t-r, when you call on a young lady and her mother offers
you a slice of bread and jam it is quite polite for you to accept
it.
DAN KING.
FASHION NOTES
Necklaces of roseberries are very much worn now.
It is considered smart to wear your school hat tilted over your
left eye.
Bangs are coming in. Em Frewen has them. She went to Summerside
for a visit and came back with them. All the girls in school are
going to bang their hair as soon as their mothers will let them.
But I do not intend to bang mine.
CECILY KING.
(SARA RAY, DESPAIRINGLY:--"I know ma will never let ME have
bangs.")
FUNNY PARAGRAPHS
D-n. What are details? C-l-y. I am not sure, but I think they
are things that are left over.
(CECILY, WONDERINGLY:--"I don't see why that was put among the
funny paragraphs. Shouldn't it have gone in the General
Information department?")
Old Mr. McIntyre's son on the Markdale Road had been very sick for
several years and somebody was sympathizing with him because his
son was going to die. "Oh," Mr. McIntyre said, quite easy, "he
might as weel be awa'. He's only retarding buzziness."
FELIX KING.
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