NAMING THE BABY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 235, 4 October 1937, Page 6

NAMING THE BABY.

There are some oriTinal thinkers, despite what has been said by H. G. Wells and pictured by David Low about the routine quality of the military mind, among the exalted brass hats who plan out the manoeuvre* held in various areas of England's green and pleasant land la,«t month. One of those mimic wars broke out in Anglia. and the opposing commanders were facetiously designated FieldMarshal Hitmiss and Generals TufFjruy and Bullfinch. This effort has by no means exhausted military inventiveness. The organisers of the exercises of the "Fourth Guards Brigade were equally imaginative. The idea was that General 8010. of Centralis—for the purposes of the manoeuvres a buffer State —was to waylay the Mugwump of Eastland, another potential l.uffcr State, who was visiting the Enni of Westland. The Mugwump was bound by the rules of his caste: (ai Xever to travel in a mechanically propelled vehicle or ride on any animal: (b) never to ride a bicycle; and (c) never to hurry (apart from physical inability, he would lose caste were he to run, or in a horse-drawn vehicle to trot). Moreover, he cannot eat "parrot, porcupine, pig or potato." Tn the manoeuvres he must have been shot sitting.