The Critic's Wink

NZ Truth, Issue 1212, 21 February 1929, Page 6

The Critic's Wink

THE Auckland Defective Force. * # * KING AMAN-ALL-OVER! • • • MEW ZEALAND'S "standing" joke — ™ the railways. « * * REFLECTION is one of the modern girl's hobbies. - # * * IT is obvious that women don't worry much about clothes these days. * # . » IF a man says he's at his wits end don't mistake him for a globe trotter. #. * # • . THE golden rule is the one that pleases women most. ■ # . # * THE son of Grand Duke Alexander, who has been chosen as "Emperor -* T),,croin "■ IB

Of itUSSIU, i a sticking to his office job m New York. Probably thinks it safer to punch the Yankees' Bundy than to knock the Soviets bandy. *■ # TEST Match philo- . Sophy: All the hitters are not bold. * " * COVIET Russia *^ continues t o woo Australian

workers. Long engagement likely to be the outcome. •• .■*■'■. •._ A MAN may be said to be m love with , his job Avhen he employs a pretty typist. * ' .# ' " * A LONDON message states: "The General (Booth) is sitting mai chair, reading his correspondence of over seventy." — A slight delay m mail transit— probably. . , . ' • • . • * * TTNDER the heading "Gardening and V Poultry," the . Hawkes Bay "Herald" published social "pars."— Almost scratching for publicity. • ■■'*". ■ • . » DAKERS' assistants have secured a *J big rise m pay. They will probably sing, "Dough raised me so far." "POLITICIANS at theseaside." You * can bet your life 4 the "eyes" had it that day. « «■ * THIN men are . said to appeal to *■ women. The fact that it is something reduced must be the greatest factor.

IT'S a long road that has no burning. THE good-looking girls aren't always. THE "1" should not.be heard m golf. Players use it at a bunker. • • •'■*...-••■ A GLIMPSE at some of these modern ■"■ dresses leaves us cold. •■■■'■ * : *. ■;• OLYMPIC Federation proposes to enforce that £300 bond against examateur Jack Standen. Standen deliver. * * v . '■ TWO men, members of a jazz band, 1 were arrested. They had been m the orchestra five years. It took the police a long time to wake up to them. ASTRINGL.ESS piano has been .invented. That's only a trifle. Our neighbor's daughter

plays an absolutely toneless instrument. ■.■■#. • DOUCICAULT, disD gusted wi t h Australia, says: "It is useless to expect me to return." Mr. Pomp Passes By - . .;/:; r\OCTX3R argues U that weakminded p eo pie shouldn't be allow-

Ed to .marry. Does he want to abolish the institution altogether? . ■■#. * • p ROWERS are stated to be chortling over the reduction m wheat freights. Tw'eat! Tw'eat! * * * TIMBER trade employees are trying .* to knock the bark ofE their* employers. • PRISONERS had to work to keep * the flames from burning down a gaol. They should be put out over this. : .'* ■ . * • CEW men wear collars at the seaside. r That's the place they like to be without ties. * * * . ■ .. AMERICANS m England spend jttilA lions of dollars on antiques. They prefer the well-matured brands. # * * . ' : WEALTHY man says he made his money out of lead. Lucky the police didn't hear about it. # * '•■......'■ "TO be beautiful, do your own waah- *■ ing," says a medico. Obviously, lots of women don't waah.