A SUBTLE EXCUSE.

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 95, 22 April 1922, Page 17

A SUBTLE EXCUSE.

r According to an expert, the woman motorist is being catered for with, ''cars designee to harmonise in their coloui schemes with up-to-date dresses.]

It-isn't the tightness of money Has kept mc this long, long a time Krorn buying a motor, ma honey fr'must call you that for the rhyme), But S3T to* to match with your dresses If you would be really the thing, And think of the mental distresses A motor would bring.

«uDDOse you'd a fancy for "nigger." . And the car had been chosen to show The colour you'd fancied de r.gueur, Say (roughly) a fortuight ago. Your joy would be utterly dashed with rJ„m-iv At the fun you'- provoke By weiring a motor that clashed with your jumper or chronicle."

A WET SAIL.

Americans in London have joined A l\flJ. writes a reader of the "Morning tSSS " in Th" companion of the following which they sing heartily to the tune of the old nursery song:— ■

Sing a song of sixpence. A bottle full of "Rye . Four-and-twenty \ankees Sitting parched and dry. When the rye was opened The Yanks began to sing. ••We won't go back: to U.8.A., • God Save the King.