RANDOM NOTES

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 266, 6 August 1937, Page 10

RANDOM NOTES

Sidelights on Current Events (By Kickshaws.> The Germans, it is stated, are making chocolate from W'ood. Another innovation is steak from rubber. « * * Pedestrians, it is contended, should always be on the alert. Better still, pedestrians should always in a car. Women cricketers require something more, it is claimed. Maybe women fielders get tired of only catching women. # a a “There have been many tragic stories told of ‘The Last Drop of Water,’ ‘The Last Biscuit,' etc.,” writes “R.D.W.,” “but the story of the ‘Last Match’ is on a par with these. Walking along a lonely country road, pitch dark, raining and blowing hard, 10 mites from home and comfort, dying for a smoke of the pipe with only one match left, whatever else fails this light must not. Carefully feeling his way. he came upon an iron gate; by good luck some parts on the leewardside were dry. By a clever adjustment of his umbrella he was enabled to create a vacuum. Now or never, he struck it; up leaped a steady flame. Presto—but, alas, in his eagerness to make a good job of the match, he had forgotten to fill the pipe.” [Readers may know of other amusing instances. In the case of the castaways on Disappointment Island , the last match was dried in the hair of one of the castaways for three days and then nothing dry on which to strike it could be found.] $ * « Having read in “The Dominion” yesterday an article on how any woman can lose a man Kickshaws rushes into print to tell how any girl may catch a man; not in case there is any girl that does not know, but as a warning to men, who are the most foolish of creatures. If you can show without flaunting it that a man has found you worth pursuit you can easily awaken the interest of another. Propinquity is, of course, vital, but every woman cun arrange that. The first capture may be a matter of luck, just as the first Ash will be. The skill developed in the first head-hunting expedition should enable the second man to be captured with eagerness on his part. In turn you can make the second man enthral a third, and so on. Just what will happen to the first man is, of course, no concern of this advice. Kickshaws would, furthermore, like to add that he accepts no responsibility for what has come so far or what is coining if it be put into practice. It is written entirely to show the poor boob what struck him, and how. * There is one factor that is essential if a woman is to make head-hunting a satisfactory amusement. Without prestige the game is rarely worth the trouble. The best way of explaining how to acquire prestige is to explain how to lose it. Prestige may be thrown to the winds by letting any man realise with whom you may concern yourself ■that he is more significant to you than you are to him. Prestige developed to its pinnacle of drawing power enables you to acquire that enchanting air of being unattainable. It is very deadly to men, who are born to attain the unattainable. A word of warning is perhaps necessary here. When you are on the threshold of a love affair do not turn your back on okl friends. You will afterward regret it. They should be used to prevent your mind becoming fixed too firmly on one object. _ Some women are so thorough and mistaken that they forsake their usual interests and adopt those of their prey. Those who have captured non-drinking innocents show a remarkable volte-face when ' their new prey obviously loves a merry life. This method is wrong. The fish should be landed at the river’s brink. The fisherwoman should not have to wade in the river to attain her ends. A word of warning is perhaps necessary in the art of head-huntlug concerning discarded admirers, or those who very soon will be put on the retired list. 'Women sometimes fall into the abysmal error of discarding any admirer or admirers they have acquired, when they start the hunt for another. They are stripping themselves of all the glamours that lhe past tokens of the hunt have provided. By giving the poor fellow no reason for vigilance they soon find that they have given him every reason for indifference. The more proofs he has that you are sought after the more convinced he will be that you are worth seeking. All men will admit this of all other men, bur. never of themselves. Women who are not beautiful need not despair because if they succeed in making themselves at tractive they may succeed where the more beautiful fail. Indeed, one might well say beware of the plain woman who is making herself attractive. She works harder than her more beautiful sister, and with more deadly persistence, because she cannot afford to make mistakes. 4 4 Possibly some advice should be given as to how a woman may decide when her hunting has been successful. It has been established by those who framed the rules of the game that a woman has not made a conquest until she finds herself pursued. Conquest and pursuit, are synonymous. In [ he ease of aloof or indifferent prey it is sometimes necessary’ to introduce a third party. This individual serves us a stalking horse. He is bunted in his turn in a quiet but obvious manner in order to make the aloof prey jealous. If this can be done the aloof one falls an easy victim and may be discarded at some time during the pursuit when it is calculated that it will hurt him most. That will teach him to be troublesome next time. How to keep a man once he has been captured belongs to a different category altogether. The hunting period is equivalent to collecting animals for a zoo. The keeping technique is similar to housing animals in a zoo. The techniques are quite different. The chase, however, is usually easier than the iron bars. Men have a patient way of breaking down the most solid iron bars. It rimy take a year or a lifetime, but in the end they escape. The women, on the other hand, rarely pursue one man for more than two years at the most, the average boob taking up the chase himself after six months’ treatment, or rather less. ♦ • « Successful participants in this game of head-hunting may eventually become embarrassed as to what to- do with the victims of the chase. They cannot be pinned on a fence like the swords of big game fish. One cannot have them about the hall like antlers on the wall. Obviously they must not be allowed to clutter up the hunting grounds, because they might give the game away, although this is very rare. A gradual falling-off of ardour may be used. The affection falls from very fond to fond. From fond to just liking, and from liking to complete indifference. This is a rather painful process. So painful, in fact, that some of the more sensitive head-hunters marry their prey.