The Critic s Wink

NZ Truth, Issue 1211, 14 February 1929, Page 6

The Critic s Wink

AFGHAN'S King— A-mir Nonentity. . # * •:■*;■ WORLD-TOURING lifeboat sprang a " Man who saved it -must have been a caulker. HP i? FARMERS are always^ waiting for ■** something to crop up. # # ■•■ # ■ CMPLOYERS m Ac timber industry regard the 44-hour week as a crosscut sore. • « # ■ * , THE ship of State m New South Wales appears to be a revenuecutter. ■ ' '■'.'. '■ * ■ " * . ■ ' ' * PLEANING up Chicago: 'Chic. Chi - cago. . * * * ' ■■ . ■ THE Dunedin "Star" says a strictly fresh egg will sing when placed m water. That ac-

counts for all that noise at breakfast the other morning. # # DEAUTY ; may be only skin deep, but some of the skins are pretty thick. # *- A LONDON chorister has started a campaign Asrainst gambling.

But even the chorister gets his money by chants. « - # .■.#•■ * SALVATIONISTS are getting all hot ■^ and Bbothered. . -.■■*:."• « * ■ ■; \7IRTUE is its own reward, but vice * gets, niore than the basic wage. *s * * , FIFTEEN- REEL "Talkie" threatened. Somebody's ma- in- law got a job. ■.*'# , • . ■> MEW remedy' for parking congestion: *' Aiitophlogestine: ■.'.*•■ '*„.*, ■ '.' THE way to shorten Parliamentary 'prorogations is to suspend salaries when members go into recess. Then they would want to sit all the time. # . . ••■■ ■ •# . DUTCH ERS always get their "cut" *? out of something. ■ * ■'■'#■ ■„*.... A TRUCULENT lot, these tram con- ** ductors.— Always punching.

fJEBE DANIELS to wed Ben Lyon. - Daniel m the Lyon's den. . . ■•; ' ..#■■,•■■*■ ■#■.■ TEST players won't be on the mat. if they write for the Press. : '*■■•*■' * " * "CUN": "The unemployed problem." That is the problem that Is never employed. * <s * . * TRADE figures m Great Britain show that Avoollen manufacturers are getting worsted. * # # THE bar-bound sailor is generally ■ . docked and then bailed out. : *:* # ■ . PEDESTRIANS often take a tumble * to these dug-up streets. ■ . i # * . * I ONDON message states that a lady *-* of title has given girth to a son — .'.-•■ Cable item.

strapping ntcie fellow. * * LJELEN WILLS 1 * says her fiance is handsome and she loves -h'i'ih. Helen plays a love game at last. «■*•* rX-KAISER WIL- . LIAM of Germany, is proud of his ancestors. For-

tunateiy lor nun ins ancestors are unable to say what they think of Bill. • '# # * THERE'S always a lot of gas about new oil wells. . «■.»•■; * TF automobile salesmen told the truth • there'd be few repair shops. * * * IT'S as much, a mistake to be fooled 1 by a kiss as kissed by a foGl. :•. *- ♦ ARTISTS' models are an exception. ■ ■ They don't worry very much about clothes. »*■ ■ * COME girls are like criticism. Often uncalled for. YJT/HEN it comes to working, the W tired man always is slack. .* * * CEEING a man-eating shark, is nothing- compared with the sight of a Cockney eating herring.