ON THE TRAIN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 136, 10 June 1926, Page 16

ON THE TRAIN.

A USE FOR OIL. HE GRASPED OPPORTUNITY. When an animal new, he sniffs it to see whether it is good to eat, and if it is not he passes it by. When man finds a new substance, he tries in every possible way to find whether it can be made to serve- his needs. "I once saw a young man. frc.=h from tho soil, on his way to the city to make his fortune' , writes a correspondent. "When lunch time arrived —we were travelling by train—he hauled n tin <f sardines out of his pocket. When le opened the tin there was nothing in it but oil, Sardine 3 are sometimes packed in olive oil, and in this case they had forgotten to put in the sardines. The young fellow could not eat the oil. and lie did not want to waste it, so he used it for greasing his shop*. Now they had already been blackened, and when the youth had used his greasy hands to rub a cinder from his eye, he looked as though he had come from Central Africa. But I have always suspected that lie succeeded in the city. His motto was to make everything serve a purpose.' .