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New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 56, 19 July 1940, Page 6

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LTHOUGH no one has asked us about it, we have no hesitation in drawing the attention of readers to the fact that in The Listener there are sometimes three columns and sometimes four, but never a fifth. * * * SIXTY-WATT lamp please. Pearl or plain, madam? Come now! The knitting craze has gone to your head. * * * E know a man who refuses to sign his chequessays he wishes to remain anonymous. * * * A BUSINESS man complains that for the past _ ,twelve months he has not been able to find a hat that really fits him. He is seriously thinking of changing his restaurant. * * * HAT is the most useful of all social accomplishments?" asks a correspondent. Being able to yawn with the mouth closed. * * * a IGNORED the crowded front on my holiday and went for a long walk until I found a nice quiet cove," says a fair correspondent. He took her to the pictures the same night, and by the end of the week had spoken to her father. * * * S your wife’s opinion sound? Yes, but that’s all. * * = DON'T act like a baby. I can’t help it. I was born that way. 7 * * * "TLJOW do laundries identify each customer's collars?" we are asked. Sometimes we think they must file them for reference. % * * N returning from a raid, members of an R.A-F. mess had a meal of grilled steak. Unaccompanied by flaming onions. * * * "THE optimist’s motto, propounds a psychologist, is ew You never can tell till you try." And a woman’s, "You never can tell till you try it on." * * * WS ITEM: The Matson liner Monterey, on which Mr. C. E. Gauss, newly appointed U.S. Minister to Australia, was a passenger, was held up in San Francisco when the radio operators walked off. (There is no truth in the rumour that they demanded that the ship should first be de-Gaussed.)