The Critic

NZ Truth, Issue 1168, 19 April 1928, Page 1

The Critic

"FLAT LIFE."— But not dull? TT'S easy to tell a flapper, but what 1 is there left to tell her? * , # * WET Paint — When a flapper cries. ♦ *• # A MAN isn't necessarily a prodigal son because he supplies silken coverings for golden calves. ♦ * # "THE Last Warning" — When the wife says, "And mind you don't get home late.' 1 #* ■ * PSYCHOLOGICALLY there are vast A differences between man and woman, a professor informs vs — certainly the man dresses to go out. # # * DOARDING-HOUSE chickens are like the human variety — They're older than they look. # # # CHORT frocks, these days, are getting to toe a sign of advancing age. # # i # THE New Zealand girl is a great believer m the slogan: "Never put on to-day what you may be able to take off to-morrow." * . • •

W/HILE a train was delayed a pasvv senger got out and milked a cow. Instructions m the art ought to be m every time-table. * # # niVORCE has been made easy, a lawyer informs us. Maybe, tout it still doesn't make marriage any more Jattractivei-j---- ; ; '■ i'-'fas-tf' %&&'&?&^''- •^*« : ■ " #■ .'■■'■' *' ■'■'■■•■ WE hear mean things said about young people who live m rooms. But t^hey are only roomers. * # • "THE Cat and the Canary" — adver- * tises a theatre. Reminds us of the City .Council and the ratepayer. * * • W^ARM weather induces that sinking vv feeling. Some sink more than others. * * • A NEWSPAPER article on women "■ starts off, "Generally speaking — ." They are. * * *• TRIAL marriages are a new source of 1 revenue for the magazine contributor. * * • A UTOCRATS— "I think that hat suits ** you admirably, madam." * * # A JAZZ fiend has danced 110 hours ** without stopping. The proverbial cat on hot bricks will have to go some to beat that. * # # JWIAN has conquered the earth, and the air, and the sea. But the conquest of woman still defies him. * # * TT S. GOVERNMENT has intimated that it desires the safeguarding of the principle of the open door. So that it will hold the key of the situation!

* # # THE keynote of marriage is dough 1 # • #

MANY wives would like to see their iU husbands golfing m the garden, where their digging would be more useful. * # # QUR trains are not too bad, barring accidents. * ■ • • CUBMARINE warfare dispute is get- •^ ting a bit too deep. T TSELESS* for U.S.A. to talk about what she can do. Every other nation m the world can liquor. * • # I IMERICK competitions are again m *-* vogue. * # # CHOP hand mobbed: A counter-at-tack. * * • W/HEN air mail services are m full ■ swing let us hope that postmen will be decent enough to drop all bills down the chimney. * * • PHICAGO'S Prayer Day was attended by much shooting. Obviously some who stayed away were only swinging the lead. * # * ME who laughs last is generally *1 thinking of a good yarn he's going to tell next. * • # THE right age for a girl to marry is 1 the age at which the right man asks her. * * # TT was merely a matter of sex--1 app(ea)le m the Garden of Eden. * # • TT'S the drunken motorist who puts 1 the "(h)ic" into "traffic." . # # # j/"NIGHT errant must not be confused "■ with "Night errand." * # # DAW onions are said to be good for ** singers. They certainly give the performers more room to use their voices.