The Passing Show

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20821, 3 June 1939, Page 15 (Supplement)

The Passing Show

(By “Free Lance”)

EXTRACT FROM a recent book on etiquette: “ To make oneself at home is to help one’s host in the difficult art of hospitality.”—l have always helped my hosts by putting one leg on top of a tea table or whatever happens to be the nearest object. Of course, every married man realises the truth of the old saying that “he who hesitates is bossed.” A lawyer is a man who has learned to put two and two together and make it come to ten and sixpence. This world of ours simply swarms with optimists. On Wednesday a friend said: “ I’ll see you at the Winter Show this evening.” * • • * A cable message the other day announced the result of the Manx Air Derby. For the information of the unitiated this is not a race for tailless aeroplanes. The cables told us recently that a serious situation had arisen through the burning of a White Paper in Palestine.—Holy Smoke!

COMMENT AND CRITICISM

That young nephew of mine naa a mjmarkable way of getting round his mother —Just another triumph of mind over mater. The man who sings in the bath merely upholds the theory’ that one should sing when things look their blackest. * V * • Engineers are still searching for oil in Taranaki, but Oscar tells me that drilling has started in Auckland, too. • • • • “Gas in Next War”—“Book by MajorGeneral” : Headlines on the literary page. It should have run “Gas ON Next War, etc.” Mr Chartiberlain has written a book entitled “In Search of Peace.” Of course, the title “I Found No Peace” had been used already. This Government of ours seems to be short of money, and yet we have not had any new taxes lately. For what it is worth I would submit the following suggestion: They should tax female beauty and allow every woman to rate her own charms. The tax would be cheerfully paid and would be very productive.