PEEPS AT THE PASSING SHOW

NZ Truth, Issue 1203, 20 December 1928, Page 6

PEEPS AT THE PASSING SHOW

I AR-WOULD; Woodfuli wouldn't. L* * * * ' . ONE thing about chemists who make fatal mistakes m their prescriptions is that they never lmve similar experiences twice with the same clients. - ' • THE man who rests on the blisses of •*• Yesterday may have cause to regret the misses of To-morrow. TOO much laughter or too many A tears— either .will -weigh down tne scale, and find you wanting. . * * '. * TF one could only see the mind's eye - 1 of some people, one would detect some pretty blank expressions. ■■. * - * ■ ■ * . ' POLITICS is a queer business — put a man m and often you'll find him out. * * *• A STAR film- is entitled: "How to handle women." Lots'; of husbands have taken the main part m "The taming of a shrew," only to find a painful finale. ■ ■ # _#•■#>■ NONSENSE is the main highway of fools and the holiday road for wise men. ■' * * * THE number of wreaths on a grave may not he a criterion of popularity m life. Many a man has put a I "bob m" to celebrate the .occasion.

MONEYLENDERS are full of interest, • * *- -. # #

MONEYLENDERS are full of interest. nOCTORS' bills are far too long, as a *-* rule, but much to the point. « - >» *- ' . CCIENTIST has evolved a process for the conversion of waste petroleum into coal. Better far if someone found a use for Parliamentary gas. .'*■'* * "TF a drunk man married, would . 1 the marriage be invalid?" asks the Christchuch "Sun." Well, many a sober man wishes his was. * .*...*.-' A BlLL, has been introduced into the **■ New South Wales Legislative Council, giving judges power to urdor floggings for razor -slashei's. Lashes for slashes. * * * ANYWAY, if we did suffer the pangs ** of another war, rations m clothing, however short, wouldn't worry soldiers' sisters. . F\AILY paper heading: "Mythical •^ Sausage." Is that anything new? "# * * MAGAZINE article heading: "Novel "■*• Breadwinners." Some novelists are, but how they a^re is the deepest of mysteries. * # * CPARROWHAWKS or evangelists— ■^ both birds of pray with nests well feathered.