THE CHANGING SCENE

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 574, 31 July 1909, Page 6

THE CHANGING SCENE

A BIRD'S EYE VIEW. j „ (Br M.0.K.) | 'A -cable message , reports k that "two for- ' eigners were caught spying in the battleship Bollerophon's engine-room," and that tney r "were put ashore at Southend " It is uni derstood thai the Admiralty has decided that no battleship shall put to sea in future without a night-watchman , A speaker at tho opening of the Victoria College, gymnasium tins' week said. "I would ' Tather turn out one Rutherford than a team o? All Blacks" Tho usher at the Opera House, and the human ejector at a leading i hotel consider that this statement entirely agrees with their experience >A Borlra professor, it appears, has been unburdening himself of the opinions which he has formed concerning the ladies of this country "He admires the New Zealand woman," a Christchurch telegrarn informs us, "whom"he finds clever, bright,''and intelligent, but she has nothing to show that she 13 different from the woman of other countries which do not enjoy the privileges' conferred by the female franchise " We can imagine ,what ho will toll the people, of New « South Wales, whither he has gone with a , whirling head. "Zoy wore divine, zose lady womens Bot ven I goms to ze contry, and around me for tho suffrage-edugatod women looks, Vat mine eyes tonder-stneken bo'old? JGreizhimmeldonnerwetterundgranaten, I wofcmans ordinary be'old Egspectmg vun, or Waybe three foot cgstra of 'eight, I zeo only jgn ordinary'magnitude lady t Bughf Ver' ?ell - never m6ro zo ' Hintelligent— ey gbmbrehend me at' ze —vat you say'— ,it ze< instant .spot Bot I vas der disab,jboratcd Zey did not berform or do any zing Wat a 'German vemalo could not with skill-i)f-Jong-habit every day berform I meet a *ady, andicipatmg long and good, talk on ze Babour laws and Zocialism A relief and a (change I think P I vos mistook Jn five anmutes I to the l cako-fijled and by-ali-bat-Jronised tea-room" her ' ezgorted Abbetite ? fcVon would dink riot vrdm her abbttite that whe a vote-of-Barliament possess Und der Uheatre. She veep.ven der 'ero is bedrayed P She haf it not. Sbecdaclesp Not ?ron blue pair see I No differend ,vrom womans of' Prussia, My gonglusions? You can, say dot votes no more sbange womans Jfchan anny oder names shango dei rose smell 'of sweetness. 'She always just womans." During the week somo soulless person said ' fjT«hat "Dr Findlay talks at 'a time like this *>f the State providing music and art 'and proper theatres, libraries, art galleries, and * ,60 on It 'reminds me of Nero fiddling while ' Rome is burning " The materialist naturallj ~ wants something better than music by ivay ' /of antidote-to the current| depression—and, ' ifrom the materialist's point of new, thero ■ Veally are better things than music For ifche present, however, Dr Findlay's method - of dealing with the "situation certainly seems , * to make it possible that in 1920 or there- • abonts somebody will scratch tho following verses'on the walls of Parliament House. , i . , ■. f i The tram-rails, ohoked with ragwort, rust, and every little zopbvr sweeps (Palo,'faded lOTjys in heaps along the Quay's thick gathering dust, t iTho stucco all is fallen off the walls of gaunt s and empty banks; << >. And warped disintegrating planks are all of \ what was once tho *harf. The place where once the phonograph said "hirelings," "traitors," "rag,'" and 'Punk" 3n bleared and, blind decay is sunk, and from its -tnrfsts kaias)laugh, , ] The thick and block the'doory ways of th' embottled hall. - '_ < Whence Anyon; raraH|r6 revolvingly, at t w , ' > > ( <■ ' ' ! , |(j ' , ji Tho frequent'-.tounah and his t gold, allured by Mr .T-,Br Donlle A 'i,, \ ' , Are gonWlohg 'afMifitey are, gone a, ftecend of'ffiedays'rff old ' '<■? «M J ," - , i - J-J ' Iho bit of tin long'sins&^took wings and Sew away; ' / ' r i It bade adieu that awful day when(Cohen put the bailiffs in—-* \ ~' v _ >■* > <- That sombre day of dreadful note, j when, following Sir Josoph Ward, # , , The population rushed ajxiard the last^departing Sydhby boat f '",",,. * ' ' V ' 'And we,, who could not raise the fare-does sadness nil oar hopeless hearts? Not muoh.iwe the site,(and hunt the rabbit In has lair). 4 '-,,.'' , /■ ' i IWhat matter that we're alTgone bung? We sit around in-airy rags, * - ■> And cultivate,our souls while wags tho learned , - DoctorV'silvern' tongue. * " > '- ) f i ' She commonalty bankrupt is. What odds? Our busted 1 native/land ' * i Still owns >a picture and'a band that serves , up soothing- symphonies ~ iWe've cast' the blasted past behind The brambles bloom in Lambton Quay, - ■ The ..rabbits dwindle, too, but wc-(Buck up, -my heart I) we do not mind

"Whin yo come t' thuik iv it, Jawn," ■ qjaid; Mr:vDooley,-."these-.here fellers . that > seis that enthusiasm - an' ldcehsm is dead, an' ' -that-'th' - Wellington.man. cares^more about - pnco;-iv -meat thin: ahout' th!: higher life '. ->--wnin/'ye ■ conie <V,think' : ivX:it;'ithey, ihust ■ iave • felt''' turr- ble : ba-ad >: whin they; ,-rerread th' noblo rturrd-s iv . Joe- Warrd, -cabled at gr-reat expmse be wan enthusiast jin London- tV-another-enthusiast m: \Volling"'v' (ton, utcludin', Jawn—an' this-is awake i spot an an otherfrise. noble •.3imiiii'ry, iv;th' : things - (that th'" dogs -'have; learrned t' barrk sinco me friend IJick Seddon discovered-th' .lim--1 pire —a scrap iv poth'Ty bo th' pote tßraoken" ; , , ' i ' "Ye 1 will-mver 'persuade- A -me," / said Mr. fiennessy, "that I wud 'have suffered fr'm insomnia' if I'd not;r-rpad'Joe's speech. An' 1 ■■■■■■ ■ i've got' th'- '.-ilrackenf/.m rbook .-on - Beano's '. Fruit Juico." -r .■ "Sowl- is what, ye -want, ■ Jawn.. - 'What,' gays Hogan t 1 me,-.'what .will Joe say?' he ■ aays; 'IJwantW'know, I'r Joe is reprcsentm' - me,- an''l 'want t' know how he's doin' his -wurrk as mo proxy,' says he. ■\Vell,'. I says, 'he'll/say, this, 'Hogan: He'll, sfiy.that th' 1 ■ / line mother can rely wance moro , on th' gr-'reat jlainb-producm' .offshoot' iv th' ould -v - ■ stock,' an'- -that th' : Empire is consollydated ' more ' Hhin 1 iver, an' betther.-• ray- . spicted thin lver." ■an tb'Man' where, th' kauri gum grows,' - an'" th' revenoo, li • fourpence-more than-wance on a- time.'An' that is what he said, Jawn.-. '-Th' .dolly-- - gates;' says .th'/London' : -Times:'. .'th' dolly-; .gates'' satei spellbound when th - - Primeer :iv 'th' ' Dominion' got' t ! -inlrrk; Castin' asidetli'- hidebound thraditions iv ages, . he rayininded ,'thim that th'-Empire lvuz thmkin' iv th ? future;' Soanil'-t' an-oratorical height . that lef' th' dellygates' pale - au';- dizzy-, -hp flashed out -th' 1 truiih-that wan 'hundred years, equals wan.(tontury.> J3ut th'. climax came whin, handlm' th' ligures. with ' 1 ■ 'ftn :, ease.'onknown 1 1' tlte hhest iv. our statis--ticians, he announced .that-th' overseas -Bmpire wud have'a 'hundhred million pathntes I in a debt iv a hundh-' red billions. Sinking t' a wondherful depth iv impressiveneasy' he -warmed; th'. dellygates : - that- th' Empire 'must•<go onv.-aird, an' ,at - "this stage' Mr. Asquith hurriedly fumbled f'r - Wo-onderstan,' adds th' -'Times,' 'that our .foremost•composers are. al-. ' ; r setting.' tHis lr-r6at%feance- t r .iriiusic. A muaical comedy 'called "Tli' Solidarity, iv th': Empire" is;' already. playing.. t' packed /houses.- Th I 'phrase is Sir Joseph Warrd's. ■ A Shakespearian • revival has been' created bo his bniliant quotation fr'.m that, neglected- author's ■ That is how it ■ ' sthiTUck-Englan'./I knew Joe wanst, but I : ;niver /thought .he had it in him t' "electrify ■'<h' dellygates like that.-. An' but f'r th! on r -' thusiasm iv some unknown: benefactor we wud not have known what ho said. ■ We might liavo thought lie had talked plain brown sense. Since th' spftoch wuz rayported, wool has nson, factories aro sprmgin', up,, vth', -pawnshops arre 'closin'- down,. an', th' '.weather has changed.'. Th' mists iv doubt an'j depression,have been, dissypatcd, an' Th' Dominion has ceased pub- / lication, onable t anny„ longor t' , refuto th ! . , Primeer.'-! :.. . , , ... "But what's th' uso iv. that?" asked Mr. Eennesby. . ' ' " AVi'll, isn't it a comfort t' be able t' r see what' l Joe .didn't say. ,In th'_excitemint - : ho may have alluded t' th' public debt. As it : wuz, ye wud rnver - know but ; what we wuz gKed-money," - <