A correspondent laments the fact that when he appears in public wearing his monocle there are always some people who sneer. Apparently a pane in the eye gives them a pain in the neck. “Practically every vertebrate wears less in summer,” asserts a back-to-nature enthusiast. A notable exception is the cricket umpire. An astronomer asserts that the end of the world is in sight. It seems a pity, because prosperity is still just round the corner.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1938, Page 9
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76Page 9 Advertisements Column 1 Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 August 1938, Page 9
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