LET MEN BE BOYS.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 142, 17 June 1926, Page 10

LET MEN BE BOYS.

A ROTARIAN TRAIT. The following amusing skit on certain Rotarian customs is from the weekly letter published by the Auckland Rotary Club:— The following was received by mail. Whether it was intended as sarcasm or otherwise, it makes both interesting and amusing reading:— I spake unto the Daughter of Keturah, saying, this day is Daughters' Day at the Rotary Cluh, Wilt thou go with mc ? And she said, I am sorry that I cannot go, for I went with thee last year, and it was more fun than, a box of monkeys to see the most dignified men in town acting like schoolboys. But I cannot go this day. Shall I lend thee my daughter? And I said, thou sure mayest, and she shall have a gay time. So I took the daughter of the Daughter of Keturah to the Rotary Club. And the president of the bank came in, and the members called him Sam. And the chief of the fire department came in and .they called him Jerry. And the venerable physician came in and they called him Tommy. 'And they laughed loudly and each one introduced his daughter or Ms grand-daughter. And all the men said unto each other: It is strange that a ftian who looketh like thee should have so sweet and fair a daughter; she sure must have an handsome mother. And each man accepted the compliment and returned it. Now when we sat down to meat, there was a songsheet by each plate. And the daughter of the Daughter of Keturah took it up and read it through. And albeit the eats were good, she could hardly stop to eat, for she was interested in the songs. And when she had read them all, concerning "Alfalfa Hay" and "Sweet Adeline" and "Old McDonald Had a Farm," she looked again to see if she was entirely correct ac to the men who were singing those gongs. And there were the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker and the Mayor and chief of police, and the judge and the doctor, all singing "I'm a Little Prairie Flower." And as we went away, she said, grandpa, I have heard that all the men who now are men were once little boys, and it was hard for mc to believe it, but now I know that it is so. And I said, my dear, no man who is the right kind of man ever wholly outgroweth his boyhood. And the Rotary Club is one way of letting men be boys. And she said there are other ways? And I said, there is one very good way. And she said, I think it is for them to play with their grandchildren. And I agree with her.«