PROFESSOR DAVID'S RETURN,

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 478, 10 April 1909, Page 10

PROFESSOR DAVID'S RETURN,

■Mrs.. .David's friends aro congratulating her on-tho'safo'return of her husband from the. desolate regions of Antarctica (says tho last.Sydney paper received). In connection with, tho meeting, in the Town Hall, Mrs. David and her family.had an.cxporience both amusing and irritating, showing, as it did, bow unscrupulous some people aro when they want, to. gain their ends. Although Mrs. David and,her.party.wero at the Town Hall sorao, tirao before .7, they had at first difficulty in getting in. Mrs. David thought that perhaps by mentioning her namo to tho doorkeeper. sho might have more chance. "It's no use,'"madam," spoke tho doorkeeper, more in sorrow, than' anger. "You're the sixth lady, who has tried to get a good seat by telling mo the same thing." Ho did not mean to -imply, that the Professor was a polygamist.'b'ut only that .somp women were what Professor David's .namesake once hastily remarked that ..all men were. And Mrs. David, quite at.her.,leisure, endorsed tho sentiment.; t _,;. ~;,,; .'"NotliiDg'isso nasty, to eat as seal blubber','" said Mrs! David, on the authority of her husband, and all the ladies at the tea party sat lip.and listened to particulars of Antarctic diot. /'Candles aro really nice, but seal blubber is too horrible. The Discovery peoplq 'couldn't''keep it down, but it just shows-how hungry. Shacklcton's party were; they were_ i g]ad,.to..get_tho awful stuff, raw blubber dfippnig-with oil. It seems it is very hard'to cook, as tho'oil takes such a long time to .heat; and when,they ate it, it would be only warm. They gulped it down quickly, only wishing it were'caudles." "I have hardly seen my husband sinco his return,"' was Mi's'..'- David's plaint. "Ho is ■always /in requisition ..somewhere, or other. Wo havo 'hit "on a plan of detaining him at Woodford. ' His watch' stopped in Antarctica, and ho hasn't : g'6t tho Sydney timo jet. So wo intend to put back all the clocks, and make him' just miss' his train, and then he 'must' stop at hompr^