COGS’ CORNER

Manawatu Times, Volume 60, Issue 225, 24 September 1935, Page 5

COGS’ CORNER

AN EAVESDROPPER. You know that anyone who overhears % conversation not intended for liis ears is called an “eavesdropper”—but ■wliero do the “eaves” come in? In ancient- days it was illegal to build a house with such wide caves tkat the rain dropping from them, tke "eavesdrop,should fall upon another’s land. Therefore, if a person was within the range of another’s “gaves-drop” it meant that he was not only upon another’s property, but was within a distance where he could hear conversation within tho house. Thus, any person listening, beneath a window, for instance, would be literally within the *‘eaves-drop” and be called an “eavesdropper.”

She’s never heard the golden-notes - That hairy voices trill. Nursie says there’s no such thing As magic in a dream, She’s never sought the rainbow gold, Nor silver in the stream. But Mummy ’4 not a bit like Nurse, She knows what Fairies are, And some day soon we’re going to iind, The diamond in a star. We’ll step upon a moonbeam bright, And tightly holding hands, We’re sure to find the hairy jewels, ’Cos Mummy understands. —Copied by White Dove.

YOUTH DEEAMS Give me wide wails to build my house of Life — The North shall bo of Love, against the winds of fate; The South of Tolerance, that I may outreach hate; The East of 'Faith, that rises clear and new each day; The West of Hope, that e'en dies a glorious way; The threshold ’netith my feet shall be Humility; The roof —the very sky itself—lnfinity; Give me wide Avails to build my house of Life. —Author Unknown.

TRICK WITH A PHOTOGRAPH Got a dishful of. vinegar and thoroughly soak a snapshot in it, face upwards. Allow the photograph to remain in the vinegar for six or seven minutes. Take a pieco of fine white cloth (an old handkerchief will do) and lay it smoothly over a piece of flannel. Take the photo out of tho vinegar, place it face downwards on the cloth, and press it down with a hot iron, moving the iron about carefully until the photo it dry. You will find that tho photo has boon transferred from the paper to the cloth.