The Critic's Wink

NZ Truth, Issue 1213, 28 February 1929, Page 6

The Critic's Wink

A WRITER likens New Zealand to floundering financial ship. Wool sales prove that she is steadily getting baled out. # * » I ONDON man predicts a worl.d, tree " famine within 25 years. Forest Conservation Department should develop more branches.

DEALLY the 'only ** way to popularise bed-time stories is to send them along after midnight. *' * DAPER asks why *• have the Jews been always held up to , ridicule. There are money arguments . why ■ everyone should be civil to them.

ANGLICAN Bishop of St. Albans (Eng.) has instructed his clergy riot to marry divorcees. Divorced people regard this as discourteous after their courting before a Divorce judge. . . « # # "THE unemployed should be driven •*• to work," says a newspaper correspondent. But you can't drive a man ff he hasn't had a bit m his. mouth for a week.

A SOCIAL WRITER complains A of the "high cost of women's dress." The trouble is that there is so little left of the dresses to cut down.

THE latest craze fop painted a/ikles among women" will provide the bashful man with an excuse for studying art. # * * WORLD'S NEWS": "Are Women more generous than men?" TTall, if the woman has a past she is generous to the man with a present. * *

CIR BEN FULLER - says that girls who dress quietly make good typistes. Some women may dress quietly,' but you should hear others yell when they try to get in-, to a "perfect 19 %! . bodice. ' # • .'. A COMMUNIST ** never knows, what he can do

until he tries, and when he does try he' finds he can't do it. ./'.#: '■ : * ' * ■ ' ■ * OUGGESTED that only handsome ° men should run for Parliament. ' But who would care to take any politician at face-value. - * * '•'... PURVES are coming into fashion with ladies again. Sheika are anxious to mind 'em already.