The Critic

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

The Critic

TOM HEENEY'S wife- neither powders * nor paints. A knock-out for New Zealand girls! IVTOMINATED for the Meanness Stakes: the man who puts his watch back every hour to save time. *, * ' :■ * "W/ORLD'S NEWS": "One may travel ** 23 miles on Glasgow trams for 2d." Which deepens the mystery of Scottish migration. * - . * * . DECENT cable told us an aeroplane *V that had landed m Irish quicksands "began to sing." Such heroism is typical of the splendid machines which have so recently brayed the Pacific and the Atlantic. „••■#. # # . : ■ "THOUSANDS fight • to escape 1 flames!" comments . d , daily. The rest of us are just as concerned about the future life, even if we don't fight very hard. ; .*'■.■* -••'■*• pARL. ROBERTS . has raised, the V Dickens.: m London with his novel about a dead and gone author. • >' : ' -*■ . , .#• ;-.>-• - _#.-'■ . ; LABOR politician m England has been •'attacked for wearing; 'a top -hat.. Used: his head wrongly? ■. \ "• : • : #...-■• ■..;:.#.;'. „...-;

PURTHER scandalous cases of go- * getting. # # * "DOUCE Court Fine." — But some of * the offenders get there because they axe under the weather. ■ • . '. • • •, • ■ pONAN DOYLE claims to have received a message from the deceased Liord Haig.— We have heard of Haig's spirit before. "TTJRF Notes."— To be found m pro--1 fusion m bookies' bags. CTATED that students improved their " work after a professor hypnotised them. We've seen politicians m a daze, but their work never improves. . *.. . *# * "IWrOiTORING Problems." — How to *■**" meet the instalments. ■, . #■' . •'. ■ • * COME kid! A Wellington, reprint cites the case of .'. a phenomenal American child of three-and-a-half, who, owing to abnormal glandular development, 'is four feet high, has a man's strength "arid . speech, smokes cigars and shaves every morning. — It Is understood that several well-known baby-f ood ; firms are moving In the matter. ' : •. • . ■■ ■ * * '.'DRE-WEDDING TEA/.' — After v the * wedding, of course, the bride will have the bridegroom on toast. ■ ■• o ■■■■•' - » •'"■.■

WONDERif that new Society for the Suppression of Noise will do anything about this sort of thing? « • •'.- # ■...,#■ ■. I ONDON draper left a will asking his " relatives to make him 10 minutes late at his own funeral. A matter of grave concern. # ■ • * • ..■.'■• "pENERAL, Election — Candidate Pressed." What does it matter? The electors will be squeezed m any case. ■ ■ ■ $ ....■»■■• ■ * ■■: DUSSIA has the longest canal m the world, declared an authority. But the greatest stream is that from the taxpayers to the various governments. "CWEPT Towards Bar," says shipping And when six o'clock came they were swept out again? ' ■ ; . . #■ - * # X FRENCH writer defines courtesy as finding pleasure m taking much trouble to be at a rendezvous, waiting thirty minutes after the appointed, time and then greeting, the. belated one's casual arrival with an engaging smile. —Surely a misprint for "curtness"? . ''. .■"■ ■ • ■*.." . ■■' ■*'■■■. i* . . •.■.'.■" I/IEN are attending masculine fashion parades, heatedly discussing th© latest materials and shades of ties, says :ecent newspaper advice from Paris.— Poplinjays.! : ' • ■■•.•#. #-■..* ; ■ . OABBIT metamorphosed by the inlusion of rare oils and perfumes is lelighting the palate 3of Parisian jourmets, states a recent oable from Lia Belle France. — We never auspeoted Jial bunny was, .not "fare dinkuin*"