THE PASSING SHOW.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 279, 24 November 1928, Page 8

THE PASSING SHOW.

(By THE MAN ABOUT TOWN.)

"Some people pull a long face at the modem girl, but I tell you candidly I would rather havo the short-skirted girl of to-day than the- long - Skirted) THE LAtJGH, Wasp-waisted and bustlestuffed old daine of the Inst century, If I had a vote on the question I would vote for the flapper every time."—A clergyman.

Each age has fashions oC its own, . The cleric, once with sword was girt; But now, of course, no clergyman Woniti e'en our temlerest feelings hurt; "Long-skirteil, wasp-walsted. bustled dames — I'lease don't make game of them, dear brothers, For, after all, oh reverend sirs, These stiiifed old ladies were our mothers.

In the programme for the Presbyterian General Assembly many of the district reports are of interest. Tho Matahi report contains this: "There has been ''ALL FLESH quite a lot of sickness IS GRASS." among our people during the year, and several of our old people have passed away, ahiong whom was Te Rcwa, who, as a boy, had eaten human flesh." It is presumed that the late Mr. Te Eewa had a reputation for piety and was excused his earlier laches from the custom of polite society; M.A.T. readily excuses him ort the dictum that "all flesh is grass," maintain* ing that Mr. Te Bew;a in liis boyhood was consequently a vegetarian.