LITTLE STORIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 224, 21 September 1929, Page 7 (Supplement)

LITTLE STORIES.

THE NEGRO'S REVENGE. George Russell ("A.E.") is credited with this explanation of the origin of jazz music: "The coloured man had been badly treated in America by whites, and jazz music is the coloured man's revenge, and ho is spreading and permeating it through the civilised world." "THE BLUE BELLS OF BRITAIN." A Scot had called an Englishman to account, as Scots will, for having referred to the English Army. '•British Army, if you please," he insisted. Later in the evening, when the two were at a party together, the Scot suggested that the Englishman. sing a song. "Eight-o," said the latter, "I'll try the 'Blue Bells of Britain.'" THAT'LL DO. Macaulay was a frequent guest at the famous dinner parties given at Holland House. He dominated the rest of the company by his encyclopaedic know--lodge and his facility in pouring it forth. On one of these occasions, when for a long time there had not been one brilliant flash of silence, Lady Holland beckoned to a footman and said to him: "Go around to Mr. Macaulay and say "'That'll do.'" WHICH ONE? The first Earl Batliurst, a distinguished wit and a person of considerable importance in his day, lived to be 91. Till within a month of his death he got through his daily bottle of port after dinner, aud would remark upon the early retirement of his son, who at the time was Lord Chancellor of England: "Now that the old gentleman has gone to bed we will enjoy ourselves." HE SANG RATHER WELL. "Last time I was in New York," said Rebecca West, the novelist, "the man in the next bedroom at my hotel sang in the mornings—quite pleasantly, I thought. As I went out one day I said to the hall porter: "That man in G-i really does sing nicely." The hall porter smiled and said: "Yes, his name's Chaliapin."