SOUR GRAPESI ' A disgruntled scribe m the day-lie press sourly accuses the fun-loving JflappeT of snobbery. Poor chap! The ;■ 'hysterical spasm of spurious patriotism has passed and gone. No longer .Jean the middle-aged would-to-God- ,' der pose before soulful-eyed and , swaetly systematic shielahs as a hero : : debarred by cruel fate from (loins? his 'bit. The boys are coming back m : ever-increasing' numbers. Youth now ; ''looks "into the eyes of youth, and the elderly sooler's advances are received with a cold glance of disdain by the flirting flapper who amused herself at M'his expense while the boys were away. me! Likewise,' alas and lack-a- -.. sday! It's a hard world. Still, when an elderly gent, is deservedly snubbed /by a pretty girl, it say prs of sour 7 ffranes to accuse her of snobbery.
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NZ Truth, Issue 725, 10 May 1919, Page 5
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Page 5 Advertisements Column 1
NZ Truth, Issue 725, 10 May 1919, Page 5