PEEPS AT THE PASSING SHOW

NZ Truth, Issue 1180, 12 July 1928, Page 6

PEEPS AT THE PASSING SHOW

* A SWARM of bees held up a motor- . car. Motorists often have bees m their bonnets. »• * # MERCHANTS don't like burglars. *"• giving them a hand m stocktaking. * -.#■ • • AWAKENED by a • howling child, ** family escaped from burning home. Newest type of automatic sprinkler. A SPEEDING medico tried to pretend to police that his golf clubs were surgical instruments. They realised at once that no one's life was m danger. .•»■■•. • DEFUSING to pay taxes, Persian "tribesmen cut the throats of the taxation officials. With them a tax seems to be necks to nothing! «# ■ * TF the old Mosaic law of "An eye for * an eye," etc., were carried out today, there would be little likelihood of the dental and medical professions being overcrowded. #• * . CUBURBAN council has received comD plaints about unlighted .streets.Protests are probably coming from the motorists who have been missing the pedestrians. • * s * WHAT is the most efficient remedy ** for seasickness? asks a ladies' paper. Port, of course. # * * MEW ZEALANDERS are credited with being careful readers by a visitor. That's what our taxi-men are annoyed about. .*• • • • AJAVIGATION terms "port" and "starboard" have been changed to left and right. So we may regard the f'c'stle as the basement and the stern l as the hindquarters. • • * TRAFFIC department reports- that * streets are so congested that it is impossible to walk quickly. Those must be the streets the telegram boys use. '. . V . * * „.'•..... IT would be a good thing if these young sheikhs got their proper deserts. ■ # .. *. # THE favorite flower of the modern bride seems to be marigold. # * ■-* MAN wanted to fight everybody, including the parson, at a recent church meeting. Must have thought the text was from Job.

ItIMIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIn^ COME folk who laugh their heads off don't lose much. * • • FEW of us find bread for our families 1 — we have to work for it. A GOOD-NIGHT kiss after the .ball ** is a pretty close finish. - . * * • THOSE who suffer from that tired 1 feeling should emulate the kangav roo. Set to work and get a hop on. * * # . : MOST cats are fairly deadly, but for m keeping one's . distance there's nothing like a pole. . ■■.#•■■■-.# . * QNE thing, you can always take your • time— in prison. : . •,*'': * * ' ">- : "TT'S false," is the favorite catch- •*■ word, of the wooden-legged and the wooden-headed. * # * pIRLS whose cheeks are burning *■* should be careful their powder doesn't explode. *• • • COCIAXi lights for social nights— *** scandal power. •■■•-. * * MUCH of the whisky sold m America is Scotch — by extraction. .# . * ' * COME little girls are very fast, but " they're not all fly (ing). " ' • ■#•■■-# #• "LJANDS and knees hunt," says the n "New Zealand Herald." Now, now, none of this under-the-table business! * * * THE "New Zealand Radio Record" 1 tells of a listener-in who got 138 station's on two valves. That's nothing. We've often got the very devil, without any set at all. * # # pABLED that English mother of 24 says she objects to drinking, smoking, dancing, jazzing and betting, but believes m everyone having a good time. How? » • • MILLIONAIRE FORD is going into "*■ the orange-growing business. We wish him every suckcess. * # # -■•; PNGLAND could not raise the money *-* to retain the manuscript of "Alice m Wonderland." "Alice, where art thou?" * " . • .. ♦ A WILL 800 years old was recently ** discovered. It's probably a wont by now.