The Critic

NZ Truth, Issue 1176, 14 June 1928, Page 1

The Critic

PRAMMATICAL point in the coming . prohibition campaign: WILL alcohol or WOOD alcohol prevail? • * * MEWSPAPER query:. "Who wrote 'Les Miserables'?" Some taxpayer, we suppose. *. # # A DEPUTATION from the Institute. "■ of Surveyors visited the N.S.W. Minister for Lands recently to urge that a bill, promised in 1892, should be passed. This opens up a new terror for politicians. ♦. • • PERMAN naval authorities have forbidden officers' wives to bob their hair. Ruling the permanent wave. i ' • # ' '# HAILY paper points out that in New *^ Guinea women are painted all over with clay when they become widows. Doubtless It is this soil that grows widows' weeds, • , • •

pITY boarding-house life is not much ** chop. * * ' ■• W/E'LL soon be watching the cable " reports with an All Black outlook. •• • # CINCE prohibition the motto of hustu ling U.S.A. has been "Keep still." DESPECTACLED prophet—Foursight. TT'S a pity the suit cleaners can't remove stains from our reputations. * * # MEN who marry grass widows do not 1 always find themselves in clover. • ' • \ • • . ' DERHAPS it's just as well that fly--1 paper merchants are not wrapped up in their work. • # • ANYWAY, cyclists may safely brag ** about taking corners on two wheels. # * • DILE-DRlVEßS—wives whose hus- * bands made the pile. W7HY is* it tha* night *falls, yet *Y doesn't break, while day breaks, but never falls? ,