A 20-year-old conscript visited the village post-office to sign on, He was accompanied by his mother.
Mother answered all the questions and the boy was made to keep well in the background.
Then one of the officials asked: "which would your son prefer, the Army, Navy or R.AF.2" and the mother answered: "Well, we'd like him to join the A.R.P. so that he can stay at home, if you don't mind.
Lighting Up His Blackout A sPECIAL constable was looking to see if all the lights were out in a row of houses. Suddenly he saw an elderly nan come into his back yard.
"Put that light out," shouted the "special." There was no response, He shouted again. Still no response, He went up to the man and asked him once again to put the light out.
"What light?" said the old man; "I've been looking round since you shouted the first time, and I can't see a light anywhere."
"What about the lamp in your hand?"
"Well, I'm jiggered. I forgot all about that."
Strikes Oil in Egg "Watch for Vitamins in your War Diet."
—Headline.
A PARTICULARLY worthless vitamin which i apt to get into one's war diet if you don't look out, is Vitamin O, or the Camouflage vitamin as it is betimes called, because it assumes various disguises. For instance, in ruger it closely repowdered pumice stone, while in r it tastes exactly like whale blubber or engine grease.
Recently a husband "somewhere in Englar took back some butter toa grocer because, after eating a quantity of it, his wife had wrapped herself in the hearth rug and taken to sitting cross-legged in a tent in the garden, mawing candles, "Your drowsy butter," he said, "has turned my wife into an Eskimo!"
"Then try her with some of this delicious said the grocer. "That'll cure her."
So the man tried her with a cupful and she instantly demand: d & new squirrel coat and now lives up a tree. It was found on analysis that the coffee was made from acorns, Take advice, ticks, and whenever the Vitamin is found in the war diet, leave it on the side of the plate.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.