MEAT SAFES.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 59, 11 March 1937, Page 8

MEAT SAFES.

Up our way a cabinetmaker who's business, owing to outside competition, had degenerated into the", uninspiring groove of supplying the farmers'wives with meat safes, and.who, by the way, was the local undertaker, gave as his reason for leaving that he was tired; of making meat safes. .-,■•■■■

"WILL-GEE.

PROPITIATING FORTUNE.

It is reported that the veteran Ramsay Mac Donald hopes to remain in the Commons as an "elder, statesman," "a role ro which he is partial.", - But you never can. tell what will happen in big politics these days. Maybe " Ramsay Mac Donald had that in mind when,he assisted at the "burning of the clavie," a fire fetish indulged in .on every January 12 in the northerns districts oi Scotland, with the object of "driving evil spirits (or misfortune) away fronj the newly-arrived year." The clavie if a tar barrel supported on an iron pole, It is set alight, and, when burning fiercely, is carried ■ round the village to "a certain spot. At Burghead the venue is "the Dours," the ruins of a Roman altar. .The burning barrel is dumped, and as it falls to pieces ther^ is a scramble, for the fragments, whicb are regarded as luck bringers.