The Critic

NZ Truth, Issue 1153, 5 January 1928, Page 1

The Critic

;. . I MEAT is going up. Some of it is so m "high" that it won't go down, * * * MARITIME marriages — mail steamers m tied up. * ' * #. CUMMER frocks nowadays are mostly a matter of gauze and effect. * * # THE fit of a tailor-made suit often depends on the silver lining: of the pockets. * . * *. ' DOLICE use marked coins in.catch- * ing sly-groggers. A coign of advantage. . •.■-.: '• ,;.: . , : : DEPORTED that ;.F,ord:,is 'trying to inculcate the "chief characteristic of a camel into his latest, viz., eight days without petrol. * * #

COME of the natives have been throwing their weight about in Samoa lately. " } ♦ ♦ # DY the end of next year, Ford will be D employing 140,000 men. If America ever has a King, it will be Henry the Tinth. • # • TWO million more women than men A will have the vote in England under the new- franchise. In future, grafters will pull apron-strings in politics. * * * ITROM a big London store, £ 3000 *■ worth of goods were removed in electric lifts. This is because the Burglars' Union objects to its members carrying heavy weights after hours. # : # • CHAKESPEARE has been described as a Solid Post in English litera-, ture. He'd need to be, seeing that so many lean on him. ##■ . # A FRENCH builder gave a farewell *"* dinner before hanging himself. This raises the question as to whether it's really healthy to die on a full stomach! *' « * THOUGH poultry is fattening, the A flapper thinks nothing of getting away with an old rooster. # # # AT sunset the sea gives-, up its girls. # # #

A CRITIC from overseas considers **■ that New Zealand girls are growing taller. Probably he is being optically tricked by the shortening dress length. ■.# # ' # AN American scientist said recently that each kiss brings us one step nearer the' grave. But isn't the scenery wonderful? DECENT excavations in Egypt brought to light a female mummy whose feet were found to be as hard and tough as hides. Must have done her share of walking home from. camel rides. , . # * # . • ■■ Y I; ENNA woman fell hopelessly in love with a radio announcer's voice and then suicided. The voice that breathed o'er ether. * * '■ « WRESTLERS don't mind throwing a party now and again. • • • QIRLS are eating lemons to keep down their weight. The sour ones should do just as well by drinking their bath-water. •''v # « # AN English judge asks if working girls' should wear silk stockings. Well, as '.far us one can see — why 'not? [ AWYERS in the case in which Jack Kearns is suing Dempsey for .£60.000, had a brawl in court. As a preliyje to a thumping big Tee? I## " # IN odr theatres it will soon be "God /Sijve the National Anthem.".