ENJOY A PIPEFUL.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 308, 28 December 1915, Page 8

ENJOY A PIPEFUL.

OF rxnCTA MIXTURE. Grown in Rhodesia, it represents;i definite breakaway from the accejttl tobacco. The ECVICTA MIXTURE b> fine blend of mellow • Rhodesian :lobaccoe, and has the natural flavour #• out any adulterants. It is thesmoksfcr the refined palate; it is all-British, ud comes in tins containing the full.2oJ f« 1/. DREADNOUGHT XAVY CUI is another fine Rhodeeian tobacco, smiwM for heavier smokers. For the cigarette smoker. Rhodesia submits OFEICtBi MESS CIGARETTES—wiII not pa:di tie throat, or etain the ' fingers,, eUhet Virginian or Turkish, 10 for CtL-.lAflf ;

People sometimes speculate, whea;tlj speed of modern progress BUddW strikes them, on what our. forefathers would say could they come to hte.w view the marked difference -in geaew conditions between now and a hundrel or even fifty years ago. And the p® ary instigator of the thought i-V« course, the motor car. There was, n« not very long ago, a prisoner reie»sw after a very lengthy incarceration, and an enterprising journalist got ioU« him, and recorded his impressions. Ao* rica has gone one better. A murderer lias just been set free from "Suig.Mi prison., after twenty-one years of_»»• finemu'nt there, and the Society Jot P* : ; trical Development immediately tool? t«. ■ opportunity of giving Jiim M" 10 [ "shocks." The old man—he is 84r-f« \ taken on a tour by a lady owner oiP .- electric vehicle, and shown all ttjSw> o- ;■'; ders in electricity which America lias of veloped during those fateful twenty?! 3 years. The electric cars which ; , in Xew York apparently mystified •» intereeted him even more than a 8p* 1 ; ] ally electrically cooked luncheon to ff k'ft he* was bidden. One would think that ; the excitement of it all wpuldjprow very trying for a man of that advan<*-; age. But what strikes one most about ■ the affair is the Americanism of it-!**-; The released murderer taken char|« "' ; toured round and feted, so that nisi» ; pressious might be noted. It sins* stronelv of the American love of Bens l: tionalism.

An incident which is reported to occurred at one of the miJitarj cam sho'ns the spirit of camaraderie whicl exists between officers and tlieir m? 1 One man had obtained leave, but • foun himself in straitened finances. In » way disheartened, he is alleged to;to* strolled up to the "skipper," pe* o torily saluted, and said: "I say," sport, I want to go and see the girl town. I'm broke. How about "a quid The request of the indigent one.« promptly and graciously granted, and proceeded to town with its numeros festival attractions as joyously * s f eehoolbov.

Summer hats for boys in pansn»i boaters and washing cloths. Before goi*B ,to the beach call here. (Ad.)

Tlie hig'ieet possible point of purity* alcoholic beverages—Wolfe's ScTinaoP'