The Critic

NZ Truth, Issue 1127, 7 July 1927, Page 1

The Critic

DINEDO refuses to allow anything to r pin him to iearth. ' pONTBMPORAJIY talks about "the *-' crux of tqp political situation." • Pronounced "crooks" of course. *v * * W/EALTHY men die sooner than po"or ** men. Tli^y 1 can afford to make the pace a killer,' • $, • * CONTINUED -slaughter is estimated to 'eliminate^whales from southern seas within ten jears. That will make a whale of a difference. * ' , OCIENCE has-|'decided to employ ■ poison gas to. protect "strong safes. Parliament House should be impregnable. \f f - m \*\ • FROST broke the ' water-pipes m a country towrist In the cities, it uncorked'he whisky; 'bottles. - • $• ; • JOSEPH GALLON, with a fish-bone J m his throat went to hospital. You'd think a lGallon would have washed it down. *V • t ' f * i *' * TT Is now defiri ;ely amiounce'd that 1 the next war r will be the war- to end war', t and tliit it wijl be immediately followed by the Millennium. » • 1 • • / "W7HAT Every] Woman Needs." 1 w Dough, of course. " > ■ * !• - • - WHEN Greek fmeets Greek— they '" open a fish-shop. * 'I* * pABLED that . af South African mil- *•' Uonaire dislikes business girls. Yet he ought to be- strong on figures. * I* * T OVE gift from to his bride, " a portable wireless set. Average wife hears too much, ■ .without any such aid. * i * f# ■» • DOYAL pair on jthe Renown saw a ** wonderful mirage when going thrdtigh Suez Caifal. The Prince of Wales saw better tones m his world tour. i • * * • ■ UFFORTS are behfe made to found a *-* Jewish Empire, s Now who's going to start the first inlurance company?

VERBAL attack by politician, says a V contemporary. No, no, verbose attack. t •* ] # DECEIVED by 'one James Cooper a 1X gift of £500 from an unknown, who merely signed h|s letter "N.V." "Oh, lucky Jim, howi IIN.V. him!" • # f, # ' JRGED by a gushing contemporary w that Dame -Nellie Melba'is "a girl among girls." A peachlMelba. • # f< # THE Labor platform {m New South „ •*• Wales seems to have developed into a scaffold. ' \ ••, ! * W7OWSER, says a bishop, is a man *\ with a prayer-booft m one hand and a cooked balance-sheet m the other. And an anti-wowser .lias a race-book m one hand and a cooked cray m the other. l |* { • • i.- * [N the, police court, Johnnie Walker 1 was charged with riotous behavior.' Going too strong? J • * ', * CABLED the American film star has . divorced her husband. That's not "news." Now if an American film star were discovered living w}th her husband — " • * * DOLICE report finding a baby m a 1 suit-case. That disposes of the tale that they are discovered m cabbages. • • ». - DEfCENTLY a lady complained, that 1X 'she was compelled tolling to the buniper r bar of an overloaded bus. Must have found the ride rather exhausting. •• ' • EUROPEAN tennis troubles are caus- *-* ing quite a racket. ' . •- * * \» . A , CIVIC reception was given to the *"*' New Zealand golfers In Sydney. Wonder were the toasts drunk m "tees?" . , DISE m wheat is going a,'gainst the ** pliblic grain. > * * * s /• THE strange, case is reported of two A ' men who went to l^w over a deener. Many thousands, however, ■go to law over a dinah.' .' -i• • , * TN 'London the women are talking " * about 'the -time when all shopping will be done by 'plane, but they can't make it plain where the bargain, basements will be. *•> ' . . • * • I ONG-WINDED .reports of wireless "' inquiry need crystallising. ' r<> * •';'*; >X NEW polar flight has been mooted. Ot, These 'airmen are-pr'elty cool.