Oddments

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 May 1949, Page 4

Oddments

Because man is weaker physically than many dumb animals, he learned to control them by developing his wits. Woman is physically weaker than man—Kitchener Record. *S* * # It makes me highly indignant to see so many heathens, agnostics, sceptics and atheists taking advantage of a Christian holiday. T-he practice of having a few days off work at Easter-time should be stopped until people remember that it is a Christian festival. —Letter in London Daily Record. , # sfc & $ * American musician Larry Adler, who plays what you and I used to call a mouth-organ, but which is usually advertised now as a harmonica, does not care much for either of these names. “Mouth-organ,” he says, conjures up visions of a small boy playing out of tune. “Harmonica” seems pompous and unsuitable. He wants to find a new name. Adler needs the help of the American editor H. L. Mencken, the man who has always insisted that English and American are two separate languages. A few years ago, a' strip-tease artist named Georgina Southern wanted a more delicate name for her act. Menchen invented the name “ecdysiast” from a Greek word meaning “one who loves to peef.”— London Daily Herald.

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