The Critic

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

The Critic

r)ELHI Indians, m the cause of humanity, are trying to stop child marriages. If that's the cause, why just pick on child marriages? * # # ACCORDING to statistics, tea-drink-ing is on the increase m U.S. To make It more popular it should be prohibited. * # • JWTAN told divorce judge that his wife left him because he was a vegetarian. This should help vegetarianism along. * • • CTATED that some kinds of face '■' powder are quite edible. This assertion must be more closely investigated. * • • ' . DRIZE has been offered m England *■ for the best method of putting a baby to sleep. Every husband is anxious that his wife should win it, of course. * # * TNDOOR games leave me cold, says ■*• Tilden. Must be referring to draughts. * # # WHERE politicians are concerned " there is a trick m every trade. * # •

DARIS is alarmed at the number of lovers who have lately been shot for infidelity. Love, which usually starts with sheep's eyes, seems to finish with, bull's •feyesvfcv^ '$&.£ ■-,•- pLAIMED that blonde races provide the best soldiers. The dark nations will now have to do or dye. MAYOR WALKER, of New York, has received a cheese from Switzerland weighing 1681bs. Believed that Walker is still going strong. ** ' # DADIO VITUS is the name of a new *^ radio station near Paris. Expected that it will broadcast some lively jazz. * * * AMERICAN girl tourist offered a rt lemon dealer m Cairo £ 700 to marry her. Must have thought she'd get it back by squeezing. # # # DECAUSE Rev. A. Daft, of Man- *^ Chester, prohibited dancing and smoking m church buildings, bis choir has gone on strike. They want him to realize he's only Daft. # # # A DOCTOR says that an apple is the ** best toothbrush. That's a very fruity idea.

* # * PRANDMA with the vapors must *■* . have been a poor sight compared with a modern flapper under full steam.

THE Admiralty states that the wireA less reports of the row aboard the Royal Oak were indecipherable. Probably a correct report of the Officers' language.

* * * THERE are now eight motor-cars to * every mile of Britain's roads. Pedestrians, it is understood, are also making great strides.

"COAX before cooking," says a recent culinary note. We are sorry to say our cook usually does. * * # A SEAT on the New York stock exchange recently cost £64,000. No wonder they are called stock broke-rs. ♦ # * "DRINCESS MARY," it is reported, "will take with her a number of light summer dresses when she goes to Africa m the spring." This should remove any impression that she contemplates roaming the Sahara m oilskins and sou'wester. * * • "ABOUT the middle of July will be a a great season for twins," said P. R. Field, addressing the Auckland Theosophical Association. We must be destined to a month of Twosdays! # # ' # A WOMAN can. bring out the best that's m a man — 's pocket. # # # TT is when you get full that they empty you out. # # * JUDGING by what may be seen through these thin dresses, our flappers are a "strapping" lot of girls. # # * LJINKLER gives the history of his n career m 'plane language. * # # DEPORT is being compiled on acci- **• dents to pedestrians. Of course it will be only an interr 'em report. # # # THE business of the Finger Print Der * partment is taking notice of Hands across the Sea. * # # MEW ZEALAND bachelors don't see enough of girls from other lands, says a lady writer. They certainly see a lot of their own. * *. • VV/OMAN writer: "Fancy work should " be a delight for moneyed women." r- iß^ncy TTorlct $