WITHOUT PREJUDICE

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 302, 15 September 1921, Page 4

WITHOUT PREJUDICE

NOTES AT RANDOM (By T.D.H.) One of the South Africans states that the team which can last out best will win, and the final issue will be a question of wind.—No really tactful visitor should evw mention wind in Wellington. If the law wants its pound of flesh from Roscoe Arbuckle he should be able to spare it. Mr. Bruce has informed the League of Nations that Australia has bled for civilisation. —When the bill came in a little while back Mr. Hughes made it plain, however, that Australia has no indention of being bled by the League. The strain of making preparations for the big game on Saturday is astonishing. Even the tickets for the stand are exhausted.

I am in a position to state authoritatively that the views of tho School Committees’ Association regarding school stationery do not imply any opposition to Mr. Parr’s moveable school scheme.

Tho Russians aro now reported to be gating dirt, insects, leaves, and bark. It would bo interesting to know whether they think the bark of Bolshevism is worse than its bito.

It is very discouraging to those who look to tho elevation of the masses to find tho police fighting to -keep tho unemployed out of tho Liverpool Art Gallery. "Tho unemployed have always had possession’of tho Wellington Public Libary ever since it was established.

Macduff: "Stands Scotland where she did?" , . . . , Macbluff: "Aye, but shes keopm a quizzin’ o’e on, Inverness. Wha s fer a free Scotland!” Macduff: "Na, na, yon gaits aye fer fules. What in ther Breetish Empire do you no spe.er a Mac wi’ his. hon on ther steerin' gear—or nearbys?’

If money talks it must have spbken in a very loud voice to Mr. Armstrong ; when the Australians lost therr match in England just as it looked as though the team was going through the tour without defeat. Tho story n Polish- . ed in tho cabled nows recently that through their defeat the m'embere of the Australian cricket Team lost £15,000, or £looo' apiece, though parently contained a germ of truth after all. It is stated m A strong personally was interested in at least two wagers. A bourne sportsman is reported to.have laid the Australian captain <~lOOO nothing that the team could not get through without defeat, while a Nou South Wales man made a except that in this case Armstrong it ho lost had to forfeit £lO. strong has most of the glory of the tour to bucjc him up. At one time or other all. funny men seem to be hit with tl desire to bo taken seriously The lato Dan Leno’s great wish was to figure as the crook-backed King in "Richard HI,” and Charlie Chaplin is credited with a d-esire to don the IBM of Hamlet'. Only a few months aeo "Fatty" Arbuckle became so desperately anxious to be unlike his usual ee that ho secured tho role of the hcio a Wild West romance of the screen, ) which ho emulated the heroic of plain Bill Hart. To-day ho finds himsdlf involved in a grim tragedy in real'life, which should wean him from his ambition for serious roles for ihe rest of his days.

Dr. Bumpus is in complete with the statement of the Australia delegate to the League of 3SaU «" b a expenditures along subsidiary cannel® would be viewed with great misgiving I until the League is firmly a sdlid and enduring achievement of some substantial instalment of rts primary objective. The Doctor says th s profound diagnosis of the cirmimambie- t considerations' illuminates the gargantuan circumference of the penetralia of the international preoccupations impinging on a proliferative and diarihoem verbosity possessing a verisimilitude f verity, but insusceptible of verification, comprehension, or conceptual apprehension by any incarnate or dismcarnate in-, telligence this side of Kingdom Come. The Doctor says it is no wonder there was' applause when Mr. Bruce finished.

How many people know how ? world-famous parade got its insalubii ous name of Rotten Row? Hare in a book on London, written nearly forty years ago, states that the immo is an'inclegant English corruption of "Route du Roi. It seems that Rotten Bow was’originally part of the Idroute from the palace of the Plmitagm Kings at AVestmmrter to tho Royal hunt intr forests The road, which went along what is' now Birdcage Walk, Constitution Hill, and Rotten Row, vas kept sacred and the only other person allowed'to use it besides the King wms the Hereditary Grand Falconer by vir tue presumably, of his association with the’Royal hunts. Although the sand gallop of the Row is now reserved exclusively for horsemen and horsewomen, the Duke of -as ; Hereditary Grand Falconer is stated to. bp l * assert his ancient rights by dr *? n | once down the Row every year. It is fortunate the disaster recorded yesterday occurred when it did as this season is out of town, and nobody at all remains in London except some seven and a half million people who don’t count.

I can assure tho .Springboks that there will bo many fair spectators .at the match on Saturday interested in their performance. I was at tea yesterday afternoon in a fashionable tea-room, and tho five best-looking members of the Africans camo in. They were the centre of admiration. . . - Kruger and van Heerden sat a-gazin’ at ° the wall, ■ Tinv little Alorkel sat next Alellish; Was it Alichau gave the glad eye to a dimpled girl and tall? The other fellows looking on. with relish. , , Five pots of tea went westward (trainer! trainer! look aghast!), Thirty luscious cakes soon said a swift Forty scones ’mid better biscuits found their time had passed, And nut-bread cut in strips then went

as well. Be that as it may, the girls stared'hard, and the ’.Boles appeared to enjoy themselves One of them, to quote a lady s comment, looked "cute" in his blazer.