STALIC

New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 20, 10 November 1939, Page 6

STALIC

ET us pray for the sick and the suffering, especially those who are listening to us to-night-Recent N.Z. church broadcast. * * * NN. American producer recently paid what is supposed to be a record amount for a number of old anecdotes and stories. His new show is bound to be a success. * * * HOUSEWIFE remarks that "Some people seem to go through the winter haunted by the possibility of pipes being frozen." Well, one must prepare for the burst! * * * WE notice in a newspaper the other day someone asking " Where does glue come from?" We should say from the wrong end of the tube, usually. * * * A WRITER said recently that this noisy modern world of ours "must be very trying to oldfashioned ghosts." Poor things — they can hardly hear themselves shriek. * * * cTT isn’t the slightest use trying to feed a pelican on odd scraps," says a zoologist. No, no, indeed, that doesn’t fill the bill, does it? : * *% % HERE is to be a torture scene in the new Louis XIV. film, and it is announced that the man who will supply the "screams and groans" will be "Thomas d’Arcy Corrigan, A.B., M.A., Ph.D., LL.D., lawyer, writer, scholar, lecturer." If the prisoner had gone so far as an oath, a Doctor of Divinity would obviously have been necessary. * * * GARDENING note advises: "Put salt along your lettuce row for slugs." No, sir, let the little brutes eat the stuff without! * * * APOTHER gardening expert informs us that he buries all his old razor-blades in the potato patch. Perhaps he is hoping to grow ready-made chips. * * * cc ARE thete any uses for sour. milk?" demands a writer in a women’s paper. Of course, it could be used as a watch-dog against bacteria, keeping them away with curdling cries, : * a * ‘/T HE elephant knows what’s what," says a circus trainer. Yes-and the camel has a hunch, too. * % * "TH OW is your daughter getting on with her violinplaying?" "Oh, she’s making progress, we can tell when ‘she’s tuning now.’