HIS MEATLESS DAY

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2861, 28 August 1916, Page 4

HIS MEATLESS DAY

I OR. HE WHO HESITATES IS LOST. An employee of the niarino department of the Eastbourne Borough Council can trace one meatless day last week to a fatal hesitation at a certain psychological moment. The moral of his experience at the time was: "He who hesitates is lost." Various other well-worn but apposite saws have probably occurred to him 6mco, as, for example, "There's many a slip," "Maka haste slowly" (our old friend "Festina Lento"), " 'Tis one step from the Sublime to the Ridiculous," ami so on. However: As the Cobar was approaching the wharf at llona Bay the member, of tho Eastbourne Borough Council's marine department beforementioned', with a familiarity horn of custom, mounted the rail and prepared to land by a method which the 13.8.C. (M.D.) has expressly intimated to .the public in general ie extremely risky. Under one arm was his next, day' 3 supply of domestic moat, under the other was a professional implement. Now, the psychological moment for these unlawful landings from rocking ferry-boats is tho hump, for after the bump there is a recoil, with an everwideniiig abyss. The hump came, tho young man in a hurry hesitated, and was lost —the yawning chasm received him. his meat, and his professional implement. When he reached the wharf he was a sadder, wetter, wiser, meatless man. _"Wi."

On Saturday, 2nd Sept., a man will traverse the principal streets all day carrying Anzac Art Union Ticket No. 91506. All persona who show Anzac Art Union Ticket stamped "Howo and Sowman" oa the hack and asks the man carrying the tickets, "Have vou Ticket 91,506?" will Teceivs ■£].*