The Critic

NZ Truth, Issue 1193, 11 October 1928, Page 1

The Critic

T ADY hairdresser awarded damages " because she got a strange nair under her toe-nail. What-Toe! . SHRUNKEN Driver Fined." Too rich ** a mixture. . . I T.S. A. PRESIDENTIAL candidate Al. V Smith wants to put the "pub" back m Republic! .4 ■ ."' : ■# ' ■ # .■•' • THE wowser reformer wants to root 1 out social evils with his "Noes!" :.-. • ■» .-■•■..#'.: : *:'- - -'• ■ "WOMEN Love Color." Especially *V pink cheques! '' ■'■ ■■#: , ■ ••• ■■ .-■»■ A MAN was awarded £122 compen- , sation for a lost, kidney. "Lodger" write?: ."We hay^ steak and kidney $9 three times "a .week. Could you let Hie, know what kidney is like, so that I oa,n lose one?" ■ . , ■ ■;■'■,■ ; - : * •■ ■■ ■ #■ # W7IFE m Divorce Court swore that .**■', her husband, sang hymns during his quarrels with her. The Holy Wars! ARBITRATION judge says juvenile rt turns at theatres are disgusting. Well,- most of. the juveniles we've seen were certainly old enough to know better.- ' '' " ■"■'■:..■":■':'• ■ ' ■■ ■■■ /•■*■■■ • .' • ■■•■ * .

SIR" JOHN SALMOND inspects the New" Zealand Air Force.' ... : •■•■.*. # # ■ ■ PITT firm has sent wires to 70 debtors letting them know thatthoir accounts are being forwarded. .We may take this as the beginning 1 of sportsmanship m business — it at least ffives the seventy unfortunates a start. * '. *■ . * . P UNMAN was fined for having a re- ■ . vblver m his sock. He probably appeared on a, charge of gun-cotton, and the magistrate blew him up. ■ . '' • • ' . .'•.■"■•• LJEENEYsays the Americans are a 11 . race of sports. Well, perhaps they struck him - that way < ■ * * # W7HEN a man is "down and out," the ** Vagrancy Act provides for his being put "up" and "m." ,•. * • T'HE modern flapper can show us a *• thing or two — usually two! ■#■ * # WHAT is the surest reminder of the opening of the trout- fishing season?—The spring flapper . . . because she's pretty fly. /..■■■••. * * FASHION note; "Striking Beach *■ Frock." Oh, that's nothing! ■" .'' ' * * '• ..'•■•■

JUDGE says some parents are so •*, respectable that they make their children's lives dull. Still/there are ways m which respectable people often brighten their little ones' lives. ■ •■•#■ . . « ■• #■■ NO South American president has been shot at for a month. Deplorable lack of interest m public affairs has apparently set m over there. ?' ARE Our Girls Too Tall?" Not a bit! '** The. illusion is due to the skirtlength. «■■ ■ . #.;■-'■ • FASHION has evolved the. popularity r of the "Eat-nothing girl." What a lemon! ,'■,■'#■.■-■.* •.* ' . ■ ACCORDING to the cables, there's ™ been a Dickens of a row. ■-.#•..•. .-.#... ■ LJBADLINB from stirring story of ** trans-Tasman flight: "Cheerß m Pyjamas." When I was but a little lad It fascinated me . . To cogitate for hours upon A matchless mystery; It was ,a simple phrase oh which I got the queerest slants—. I asked myself, "How can a person's Breath come in short pants?" And how that I have grown mature, And solved the riddle quite, Another one that's twice as hard Is thrust on me, for spite; t And I shall cogitate once more, And speculate for years Upon the look and ; shape and slse Of those pyjam&'ed cheersl