The Critic

NZ Truth, Issue 1144, 3 November 1927, Page 1

The Critic

' IT'S not the danger of getting run * over that worries the Auckland pedestrian who wishes to cross Queen Street m wet weather — it's a question of where to find the best "ford"? ■ © # * "THE end of things is m view" — to any arguments about spring fashions. ## . * T IFE is a "grave" problem whichever *"" way we look at it. # * * AUCKLAND tram sections and fares ** have been reduced. "Time they reduced some of the conductors," growled a strap -hanger the other day, as a corpulent ticket-clipper squeezed him on to the lap of a sitting dame. # # # TT is a cute name for the new sport — . tin hares. The promoters take the tin. # * * TT is very easy to see how the modern •*• girl manages to dress. # * * "W/OMEN use horse -whips," says the " Christchurch "Sun." "Critic" contends that whips are far better and more humane than rolling-pins. . # * * A LEEDS greyKOund trainer was dis- ** missed for giving a greyhound some port wine. Apparently he wanted to make the animal a gay and giddy old dog. # * * "DLASTING accident," says a daily *^ paper. Nothing to the blasting accident that befell dad when somebody stole his beer. THERE is one fine thing about Par- •*■ liament, anyway — Recess. # # *

rjOCTORS say the dangerous hour for a man is between three and four m the morning! # * * A MODEL wife is all right. It is really a question of design and engineering. # * * THE Bishop of Birmingham received a sally m St. Paul's. Then he turned round and said men sprung from monkeys. # .* * COME doctors get a knife into a chap for no reason at all. # * * "CUITABLE songs for that occasion," says an advertisement. Quite naturally, "Drinking" has a lot to recommend it. # # * AN aviator dropped a present from his *"* machine for Mussolini. There are people m Italy who were hoping that the present would be a traction engine. #* , * I IKE Mr. Coates, , Mussolini is a man *-' who gets things done. ## • # TT'S a long lane that has no churning ■*• m this country. # * * DAILY paper: "Radio Booming." That's what we thought when the neighbor put on his dud loud speaker. # . *" * GIRLS who are fond of their cups seldom have eyes like saucers. a' # * TF the modern girl doesn't wear much, •*• she is certainly well wrapped up m her own importance. # # * FLAPPERS "make up" for most of their misdemeanors. •# * * COME landladies are hard to put up with. # # # • "POLITICS is a mug's game," says r the business man. We know it is. # * * DRIME MINISTER COATES raises * many questions of policy. The public pay the premiums. Policy will lapse next year.