Day by Day

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 47, 19 November 1936, Page 6

Day by Day

Tales and Titbits (By Peeps.) America has G-men, Olympia has she-men, But tell me, what are he-men? Now, Jack Tars cannot be men. (The dancers call them seamen), So tell me, what are he-men? One Dawson said our free men Are simply puny wee men. Please tell me, what are he-men? Play “Handies” “Handies,” one of those odd games that has nothing to recommend it but its childishness, has become the popular pastime for certain society circles in Sydney. Occasionally it is played in New Zealand, but, according to one overseas visitor, “it needs impetus.” In case anyone would like to take up this fascinating sport, here is one way to begin Hold out the left hand with the palm facing the body and lean the first and second fingers of the right hand against it, so that only the tips appear. “What is this?” you ask. No one knows, of course, but it is a horse looking over a fence. (Maybe it doesn’t sound funny, but try it and you will raise a laugh. You have to invent a few dozen more actions for yourself in order to keep up the merriment.) If you fail, here is another suggestion : Pass your hand across your brow and touch a milk bottle with it. “What is this?” Why, pasteurised milk! Now you want to play ping-pong. Then hold up your left hand as before with the palm facing the body. Let the right hand jump in little arcs to and fro over the left hand, and at the bottom of each arc crack the fingers. It is better than real ping-pong and much easier. What the Dickens? Who was it that described the filming of classics as literature made easy? In any case, films are now in many instances the only form in which literature is taken. As evidence we have the remark of a 20-year-old Wellingtonian, son of an academic authority, who overheard a friend say, “All right, Barkis is willin’.” He replied with a puzzled, “I say, haven’t I heard Jthat before? Isn’t it from some picture?”Bringing Up Father “Miss Ishbel MacDonald, who spoke on the ‘Toddler in the Home,’ has devoted herself for many years to looking after the home life of her father, the Rt. Hon.- J. Ramsay MacDonald,” states a news item In a London paper. One of her big problems was to take aw’ay his bricks and get him out of his rompers in time to go to the House of Commons.