Passing Show

NZ Truth, Issue 1141, 13 October 1927, Page 1

Passing Show

♦ ■ AMATEUR gardeners assert that the warmer spring days give an added stimulus to everything except the garden. * # * DOXERS should be good pedestrians — they are used to beingr hit when they are not looking. • # • A SIGN of the times: Paying cash for picture theatre tickets and other luxuries and making the grocer wait. * * * MEN" customers of late have often wondered why the barber was growing less talkative. They have forgotten the woman customer. • • • PHYSICAL courage: Courage to shave with cold water. Moral courage: Courage to let one's whiskers grow. ♦ • • - ■ MARRIAGEABLE couples m Sweden "*■ must pass a medical test before they unite. It is the home of safety matches. # * # "PLUB for women." Back to the Stone Age. # * # MANY a man plunges heavily just to "*• be m the swim. # * * THE key to a w.oman's age is m her locks. < # # # THE only flourishing part of some ■*■ businesses is the owner's signature. # # # W7E don't consider thirteen unlucky " when we' get a baker's dozen. .* # * THE object of a reunion dinner: Repast re past. # # # UXTRACT from a fashion page: "It 1-1 takes some courage nowadays to have long hair." This explains why so many of the young men carry themselves so bravely. # # # "JTASHION Notes." Yes, that's what many a harassed hubby calls them when he parts with some of his roll on Friday night. # * * "TO clean the inside of a bottle," is a household hint. Any Scot neighbor will show ~yoii. # * # JUDGING by the appetites of some damsels, "All's fare m love." # * # PAPTION from a daily: "Plea for Safe Government." That's the trouble; they've locked it and lost the combination. # # * UEADING m a daily: "The Prime 1 * Minister. Arrival m Raglan. A Heavy Programme." The thud as it fell on September 29 was heard throughout New Zealand. # # * TAILORS may advertise: Coates A cuffed at Raglan. # * * nON'T some of the old hens try to lJ look chic?