The Critic

NZ Truth, Issue 1196, 1 November 1928, Page 1

The Critic

AN Australian grazier says: "The recent wrieat pool ballot was scandalous." The Government should make an oat of it. *. * ■ *.■ - HAILY PAPER: "Reds at Work." We don't believe it. '■. ; .# ;•.'• #'. • ■.''.*■.-■ ■ • M KROPECSY, the Parisian hair expert, says: "The shingle will be longer." Goodo! Some of our flappers are a shingle short. ,■•■•• * -;■• •• #• ' .. '*■ ..; , JAZZ evangelist Aimee McPherson has J discovered how to take>the "L" of "Devi£." ■■■,■•»_.:■'. : ■#• ■■■*■■ '. "CHOlJLDchanging :be abolishecl,?" As, ■: siill ;beiiis". AiscussedV^' 'A "■knotty ■■ problemiyln^eedv':;''rv^M; >-: -v—- ■:-'' :,:■.-. ". ;,v;:; -..* "~" — *-;r ■":~#~^-'-■-"'■.';, #< A MAN inV,one--suburb "had several <lrt hundre'dHyeight of firewood dropped -. m his backyard by the big storm." 11l wind that blows nobody wood. # '■•' ' # . ■*'.■..■

"COMETHING should be done about " this unprotected quarry," says . a morning paper. Time someone put m a word for the pedestrians. •'. • ' .. # * W/ITH the object of expediting a trial, W the judge asked a barrister "to sling the hooks m." Strike us pink! Quite right, too, if yer Honor pleases. W/OMEN formed a bucket brigade to " extinguish a fire. Charladies' union regards this as an infringement of its rights. . ' ■'*' .."■*■'■'•■■:■ W7OWSERS now favor dark spectaales to conceal the naked eye. ' * • ■#"-.■-■ ..* AMERICAN women firmly believe m ** permanent waves,' says a New York woman. But American gentlemen evidently don't believe -m permanent wives. ##. * . . AUR, jawbone has been getting smaller and smaller, according to Sir Arbuthnot Lane. How awkward, with elections m the offing. • # . ■•# . * . DAILY paper says: "Wizard who snuffs out human lives." He has a big car, and his address is, Medical Row. ■ v ' * * ■■• - -. DARTY leaders are making their '*■ pollicy speeches. ■ #■.#_■■ # .■ .. ELEPHANT hide is used m Sheffield for burnishing cutlery. , Small boys hearing of this will want to polish their pocket-knives on our politicians. # •. * *

IN many of the S°uth Sea Islands, custom forbids a man seeing of speaking to.his mother-in-law. And yet we send missionaries to the Islands! - ' ' ■•*■■■ »■'■•_•■'"'.■" "J WOULD like to point out that it would be most difficult for her m a school with a lot of rowdy boys brimming over with animal life," said the chairman of the Tuapeka. Mouth school committee, when asking the Otago Education Board to appoint a male teacher instead of a -female.—Nice, chatty little fellows! #■■• * .- # ■ y /^ABLED report: "'I don't know who the hell you are!' said Lord Banbury to Mr. Wallis Grain, who sought to usurp his chairmanship of a meeting of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals," A noble blank lord am I, so blanky meek and mild, I love each blanky bird and beast, each blanky little.child; And yet I have my blanky pride, my blanky dignitee— .:. . ■■* ■ And I refuse' to blanky well be overridden! See? . ""' ;i