The Critic

NZ Truth, Issue 1031, 29 August 1925, Page 1

The Critic

There would be a lot of silent people about if everybody obeyed the injunction: "Think before you speak." * # *,i Fewer letters would be written to the papers if people would but think before they write. * * - » U. S.ailed A.way. J * * * It's all very well to say experience teaches fools, but there is a surplus supply of those that don't seem to have had any. * * * A close friend finds it hard to part.

Spring is coming. But it's taking a long time to spring off its tail on to the trail. .#* ■ * It is announced that the U.S.A. is spending annually £1,600,000,000 <?n the purchase . arid maintenance of motor -cars. This . sum does not include hospital bills and funei'al expenses. • * * # Happiness and Health — two blessings that are appreciated more after you have lost them. # . * * Marry for pleasure, repent at leisure.

'* * * "Breathes there a, man with soul so dead, who never ,to himself has said" —"Durn that horse. I've "backed it four tiriies, left it alone to-day and it has paid twenty-five quid"? If h& hasn't said it to himself,, he has imparted the information to' all his friends .

.** # • "If you wish to live long, visit your dentist regularly," writes a health specialist. We don't know" whether this condition is worth while. '# « * We, still see martyrs at the steak— m any grill room. . «..' ■ ,# * .Fruit seems expensive, but think of the price we have had to'pay for that apple Adam procured from Eve! * - #' # You can't deny it: "We are a gobless country." « # # ■ Sunday is. not a day of rest to the man , won has bought a second-hand car. * * * According to General Sherman, "War vis hell." According to the "Greymouth Star," peace-time is also productive of hell, occasionally. Any way, the "Star" reported tihe other day that "the monthly meeting of the Grey Patriotic Association was hell yesterday." #■•■■•■*• . * ■ There will always be politicians on the fence.so long as there are: electors on both sides of it. There is many a.n undeveloped intellect "above a well-developed ankle.

A correspondent seeks information as to the identity of the person responsible for modern fashions. We should think it was a lady and that her name was Eve. #. * # Most women have many clothes, but they are content to wear only a few at a time. # « * The way to get broke is to be bent on pleasure. *# ' * "If at first you don't succeed, .try again." True; a gain is better than a loss. " . ' ■

Many a good man has been spoiled • by going m for politics. . * « * It is discouraging to be fired with i ambition and then get fired. i * # • * How big a part does Fashion play , with our morals? Is it fair to say that morality is lowered as skirts go higher? ".•■■ * •

_, . * ' *' # it is more easy to advise a man to marry and settle down than to assist him to settle-up. • *■ •/ 4 ■ ■•* - .The best bet we know of is the one where there is no bettor. _ • # ' ■■#■'...#■ Be--they married or unmarried, we hope the girls will no^ be gobforsaken. # . *' # . You may laugh at marriage, but"we can assure you it's no joke. ■ • * - * - * You may rely upon the Customs Department to do its duty, and upon the spending Departments to do it m. * * * Many a man finds his bridal day changed m a night to a bridled life * *

*■ * «: It must be admitted that many responsible people agreed with the outspoken .declaration of the Irish priest who said the other day: ' .•• -. Modern dancing is not fit for anyone's participation. But it was a very serious statement forthe reverend gentleman to make when he said: Parents should drive from home children who would not stop away from dances. Just think of the number .of homes that would have no grown-up child-, ren m them! And no parents, either,' if the driving had to be done.by them (per motor car). ■