Pungent Pars

NZ Truth, Issue 1181, 19 July 1928, Page 1

Pungent Pars

NOWADAYS even our patience is taxed. # • #•' # MARRIAGE has been described as a * * delusion. Only beforehand! * ■•'#■'•■' ft COME of' our private inquiry agents *^ know how to lie -low. .; #• . ■* * TN a court assault case the other day :■■*• a woman complained that a neigh-, bor had given her beans by striking her m "the -face with some vegetables. It proved . a turn-Up for , her because the magistrate knew his onions, and cut the defendant to the^ marrow by fining her and allowing the plaintiff costs.

WEIGHTY EVIDENCE. " * * • • ■ CVEN bootleggers use aeroplanes m *-* America, says Lyons — Oh, .well, drinking with the , skies is probably better than doing it with the flies. *■. # ■ ,' * THE Modern Fool — The man who I * thinks his income is his own. *-..#■ # ■ IWTODERN version: ' "Girls will be " A girls, the" old folks say, and the girl is the better whose had her say." " *': . * #' 'v ■■ CTAT— HICS! ° v '* - ,*■"../ .* TT'S not true that? a very drunken ■••.•motorist the other day aslsed the police to change a charge from "hit a cyclist" to "hit six cyclists." : # # # THESE Arctic stunts leave us cold; . # ' #'. ' * ' ' .. AL. SMITH is a candidate for Presi- *> dent of the U.S.A. If all the Smiths vote for him "he can start choosing the paper for the White House walla. .