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Dominion, Volume 22, Issue 34, 3 November 1928, Page 23

It is remarkable how even the most commonplace things ean cause illusions (remarks the “Auckland Star”). The other morning a city, worker, n his way to catch a tram, noticed his neighbour standing outside his gate, and to all appearances, he was wearing cream flannels and a sports coat. So sure Was the former that he asked his friend why he was dressed for tennis so early in the day. Imagine his surprise when the other moved a pace or two, and was seen to be wearing a brown tweed suit. What had seemed to be a pair of cream trousers, was really a low gate, .which, observed from a distance, and at an angle, bad appeared narrower than' it really was. ’The brown trousers laid not been seen, as the wearer was standing in front of a hedge, flic leaves of which were dead.