"PANTS AND GASPERS"

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 79, 2 April 1924, Page 4

"PANTS AND GASPERS"

Dunng the last f, !w years somuehhas been said of the appeal of the cigar-' ette to womenfolk ttat not a word has, been spared for the small boy's smo k e> and perhaps because he felt himself rather slated by that lack of notice.' lr j£* P? rsevere in thrusting himself and his cigarette before the |übHc Perhaps, agam, war and post-war prices were beyond him, but to-day, when certain brands of "gaspers" a^ do^n almost down to pre-war level, his depth of pocket suffices to permit his achieving that (or utterly ridiculous) air according to the viewpoint). It may b* to revert to the suggestion that he has felt himself rather slighted,, that he h£ deeded, liigh prices or low, to, render himself jnst as worthy of notice, ' and just as obnoxious to adult smokers as any youth w lt h the cigarette habit invariably makes himself. At any l-ite Weilvngton's experience has been tliat smokini; among youths of 13 and 14 onwards has lately become extremeJv fashionable There is some sequence of ideas in short pants, gaspers, and an out-of-the-way place behincf a shed or, -i hedge or anywhere else, but the si4t or a stu pl d youth wearing a skull nap and a_ .cigarette m a tram-car is utterly annoying, to all but the youth.

Ladies can liayr, their hair thoroughly shampooed and dr3*i for 2s 6d,. incluaan* tipping and singeiug 3s 6d. hair.«:av" ing;2s 6d. Donnelly's. 75, Vivian sticet. —Advt.