The Archive · 1938

Puffing Billies

Write policemen in plain-clothes are snooping round trying to catch one's chimney on fire, there's a man in London who can blow 1000 smoke rings in 100 puffs from one cigarette... be Modern Prophets Most ministers: t one time or another try their hand at prophecy, but seldom with the effect of one in Pennsylvania who, the other Sunday, preached from the text "He shall baptize thee with fire." He had hardly finished speaking when the church went up in flames.

The only story with which we can match it is unfortunately apocryphal. It is said that a Highland minister after a long drought prayed for in. The following day it came down in torrents, and continued incessantly for the better part of three weeks. And the good parson was moved to cry from the pulpiti—On, Lord, I prayed for rain, But this is fair rideeculou:

Facing All Ways Wien I saw. writes a correspondent, a big bold headline in the "Daily Sketch" asking me One You Tir" or Your Face? it occurred to me that of all the faces I had seen—and I've seen some pretty awful specimens—the only one I shall never get used to s my own. It never worries me or tires me— probably because I'm always behind it. 7 So if you feel that your face is not all it should be... that it jars on prospective employers and loses: you jobs, invites domestic barrages of crockery, cracks your wife's best mirrors, puffs up at meal times, or annoys passing dogs—why not write to. your M.P. about it? or all, most M.P.s have face enough for ing!

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