THE PASSING SHOW.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 224, 21 September 1929, Page 8

THE PASSING SHOW.

(By THE MAN ABOUT TOWN.) DE LUXE. The new de luxe Rotorua. express train with its gorgeous fittings will average fewer miles per hour than did Stephenson's '•"Rocket" of 1525. I thank thee. Mr. Government, in these dread days of speed That you have filled for travellers an urgent, pressing need. Lapped in a luscious luxury will amble hour by hour. And listen to the pukeko and see the gorse in flower. Evening gives place to gentle morn, The moon, fair night's precursor, Illuminates for raptured eyes The fairy floods of Mercer. Stay, engine driver, hold thy hand while we admire the scene Oh, See the sun shine on the swamp of fair Vi'hangainarino ' Halt where the flax bush oozes through our own, or.r native bogs, List tir Ihe locusts' melody, the cheerful croak of frct r s By tutu bush and blackberry, by oxeye. golden go se. Oh, stf.v until to-morrow here your rushing iron ho se' Let us descend each mile we go, let each one sow some seed So as to take to Geyserland the flowers the tourists need. They are making larger feeding bottles and more expensive perambulators in London now. This is in consonance with the newsociety idea of holdhi" VICE VERSA, frequent '"'second childhood parties." It is now possible to see guests arriving at an address in Belgraria wheeled in perambulators aiid dressed as infants. It is exceedingly humorous to see a full-sized guardsman dressed in frilly knickerbockers, a sweet little roundabout coat and a straw hat decorated With blue ribbons being wlieeled by a duchess masquerading as i nursemaid. It is understood that society it these parties have feeding bottle competitions, the first to imbibe a measured pint scoring the prize. London children's dressmakers md milliners are working overtime designing jaby garments for matrons and little pants for sexagenarians. At a recent Mayfair second •hildhood paity many of the noblest persons n the land sat and sucked pink and white ;ollie sticks, while a celebrated actress in a :wo-year-old's kit cried bitterly because her S'annie had pinned her pinny unskilfully. .411 hese people very justly think that "Arry and Arriet's holiday evolutions on 'Ampstead 'Eath ire vulgar.