THE PASSING SHOW.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 177, 28 July 1934, Page 8

THE PASSING SHOW.

(By THE MAN AJBOUi TOWN-)

If you aro skilled enough in the healing or any other art you might live on the top of a mountain and people would wear a track to you. You need not go THE WORN to the people, the people TRAIL, will come to you. For instance, the Canadian National Railways ■ have been forced _to include in their time-tables' a section dealing solely with the trains that Will take patients to a single doctor. All Dr. M. Locke does fs to specialise in the reduction of foot deformity, and trains pour in on this overworKed poor chap, often dropping one thousand folks at the barn where he sits all day moulding trouble out of the feet 01 gentle and simple. He apparently has a sliding scale —it slides from nothing for a man with_ a gammy foot and no dollars to any old price for the man with a gammy foot and 'millions to burn. The " astounding thing about a celebrity who is honoured with a special timetable—the only one in the Empire —is that he has enough physical pep to man-handle a thousand feet a day. One feels that by the time the sun sinks in the west he positively loathes the' sight of toe nails.