LOST PLEASURES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 260, 2 November 1935, Page 8 (Supplement)

LOST PLEASURES.

AN ENGLISHMAN'S XJLMENT. A London "Observer' competition for tie best half dozen '•'Lost Pleasures' 1 was won by the sender of these: A ride in a hansom. A ride on the top of the old horse-bus. The feeling of gold. The peace of the countryside. Self-made music. Tire safe sense of being on an island. Here is a selection of other lost "joys": — The smell of musk. A hand of wbistThe art of conversation. That settled feeling. Seeing the sails of a windmill turning. The old family servant. The pleasure of spending a halfpenny. Sailing ships in the Channel. A new Sherlock Holmes story. The street lamplighter. Cricket without fuss. Restaurants without music Uncut hedgerows. The luxury of safety musing as one walked. The unspoilt beauty of Oxford. The organ grinder (with or without monkey). The silence of the sky. The music halL Good food in place of diets, Titamins.. and calories. t Watching men thatch eottage*. Collecting sevenpenny editions of the classics. Harlequinades. The factory girl with the- ostrich feathers. Reading aloud. Seeing Oxford win the boat race. Soldiers in scarletCabmen's language. Conversation lozenges. The old dances (polka, quadrille, Roger de Coverley, etc). Good magazines. Charades. Gracious old age. The elegance of the "Victoria" (carriage). The gusto of party politics. The sound of the Sunday postman's knock. The taste for military triumphs. The spirit of crieket, when games were games and "rabbits"' were not criminals. Dances that were an exciting hope and not a business settled beforehand. Days up the river unspoilt by the blare of gramophones. The friendly greetings of country folljr to the unknown passer-by. An income tax which was comparatively painless. Roller skating. Tricycles. Xewi that need not be marked "official" betore it can be believed.