The negro's ingenuousness is monumental. You get the perfect example of it in the police court scene where the magistrate, exasperated by trying hard to be fair in an all too obvious case, says: “ Yes, but look here, Rastas; if you were not going to steal chickens, what on earth were you doing in that coop?” Of course it is an unanswerable question, except 10 Rastus, who, without the flicker of an eyelid, says: .lodge. Ah was jest testin’ mail will-potter!” A medical authority has stated that cant sugar is ruining teeth arid constitutions of New Zealand children. Milk Sugar is Nature’s sugar for infants. Give your baby Kruskits, the Sugar of Milk rusks—bodybuilders for babies. l At all grocers.— [Advt.]
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Evening Star, Issue 18640, 22 May 1924, Page 9
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121Page 9 Advertisements Column 4 Evening Star, Issue 18640, 22 May 1924, Page 9
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