GUY FAWKE'S DAY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 262, 5 November 1931, Page 9

GUY FAWKE'S DAY.

THE FIREWORK FESTIVAL.

A MERRY OBSERVANCE

"TEAM SPIRIT" IN STREET.

to remember tlie Fifth of November wmpowder treason and plot" j So runs the oM rhyme, arid it *obM certainly appear that there is 110 fonger of Guy Fawkes' Bay passing into > tte limbo of forgotten things. A witty I Signer once remarked that the British I People iad & habit of ignoring the j *®eatial and glorifying the trivial. Per- i kpa, ia some respects, he was right, | for the observance of November 5 conges as merrily as ever, whilst the day St George, patron saint of England, J BBB ® almost unnoticed, and more atia given to the memory ° of bygone battles than to events that have humanity's progress. glamour surrounding the name of is somewhat difficult to "Merstand, for the gallant, if misguided U W * or tune who attempted to ■i vT V the Houses *of Parliament on Wffiiber 5 } cannot properly be *®?arded as a national hero. History ■®®oras that he died game, refusing, fill under torture, to disclose the names titled instigators of the gun- . so perhaps he is entitled ' in the gallery of fame. However, it is through youthful Jjfflnwß® that the glorious Fifth is eo . remembered. The days of giant and the roasting of oxen are ™t British cliildren in all parts of « ® ff< *rld still observe the festival of T^ rks - Now that a check has been "* C€ ° n the sale of dangerous explolif 63 is less risk of damage to • ~ and the pyrotechnical dis- ' "which the night of each Guy es Day is honoured certainly gives 6 to the youngsters. year has seen an unusual developttim* * "team spirit" amongst the r™v"faced urchins who solicit pennies 4 and many and weird have displays given at street ~ Sv?' couple of dabs on the face tat iu™'' co ' a that does tm.li v Beem he considered by the of to-day sufficient to solicit Time was, and not so very

many years ago, when boys had to make their guys. An oatmeal bag for a head, a sugar bag for body, and a pair of old and creaseless trousers, had.to be stuffed with grass and sewn together. A pair of well-worn boots, an ancient hat, black gloves, and a pipe stuck in the mouth of the waxed face, and the guy wa3 ready to make his annual house-to-house canvass of the neighbourhood in a small cart, the chassis of which was invariably a candle-box. Such guys were really worth giving a penny to, because their "guardians" had &t_ Least put in hours of labour in the making of tliem. e