HERE AND THERE

Northern Advocate, 16 November 1929, Page 8

HERE AND THERE

(By Maloia.)

The death of an Italian, Signor

Sucei, during an attempt to carry out a fast at Blackpool, will recall -tha fasting feats of- Felix Tanner, who gained notoriety in this and other ways a number of years ago. I remember seeing Tanner imprisoned in a glass case drinking salt water and orange juice, but otherwise taking no nourishment. This went on for many days, and the faster seemed no worse for his experience. Tanner, it may be remembered, also made an Ark, sonfething like Diogenes’ tub, in which he attempted to circumnavigate the New Zealand coast. He also invented an apparatus 'by which he claimed that he could defy any hangman. An exhibition on an improvised gallows brought forth police protest and prohibition, consequently the inventor’s claim was not put to the test. m m a # s -

I have received the following, which I commend to the committee of the Orchestral Society for their consideration: ‘‘Dear Maloja, I dreamed one .night that I was living in Futurist 1992, and on opening my “Northern Advocate’’ of that distant time, I read an advertisement of a concert to be given by the Orchestral Society in the Futurist Whangarei. Evidently the spirit of advertising had changed with the times, and music had risen triumphantly over the conventions of today, which make it walk soberly,in public print while picturel, circus and pantomime cavorts gaily in bright drosses which attract as did the Pied Piper. Here is the advertisement I saw in mv dream:

STOP! LOOK! LISTEN! THE WHANGAREI ORCHESTRA. A REAL SENSATION! TOWN HALL, WfHANGAREI. NOVEMBER 20 . . ... EXCITING! GORGEOUS! STUPENDOUS! A THRILL IN EVERY BEAT! Qpme and hear MARK STEWART, the DEMON of •tho ; DRUM®. I; - - WALKERHOFF and PIPEROWISKI, ' the ’CELLO KINGS.’ “BERT," the CORNET CONQUEROR. ATTRACTION EXTRAORDINARY ! THE DEATH OF HENRY the VHlth THE DEATH OF HENRY the YHlth (in throe parts). . NOTE.—The Censor recommends this item for adults only. ;• YOU'LL ROAR! YOU'LL SCREAM! N YOU'LL SHRIEK:! ADMISSION—3/- and 2/-. CIGARETTES and LOLLIES provided m ® ‘a . »• THE MAN WHO WINS——Is the one who did his thinking in advance. —Always meets plenty of people who (tell him they believed in him all the time. . ■

—ls too busy to get the big head if he is really winning. —ls often the man who had the courage to stick it out a little longer. ' —Never improves his winnings by ber coming jealous of another winner. —Faces greater temptation than the 1 man who loses. —ls a wise man if he knows when hi* has won enough. $ 1 m. & s'. In one respect, though on a less pretentious scale, a spectacular feature of the Waitomo Caves is brought home to Whangarei at the Grotto Gardens of Mr S. Watt, where the other night the genial and courteous proprietor piloted a party of people to various parts of the bush in which large numbers of glow-worms bespangled the undersides of shelving banks. The localities where these tiny, thread-like creatures have their habitat, resembled in miniature the luminous star-studded heavens viewed through the clearest atmosphere, or gave semblance of diminutive incandescent electric lights 3d in pin-head gleaming. This fascinating freak of the insect world, set amid the Solemn grandeur of the natural forest at night-time, inspired a sentiment of Nature-worship which the visitors are likely to carry in lasting remembrance. s .m m m m IT COULDN’T BE DONE. Somebodv said that it couldn’t be done , But he with a chuckle replied ! That “maybe it couldn’t,’.’ but he would be one- - .Who wouldn’t say so till he’d tried. ’ * ■ - - j So he buckled fight in with the trace

of a grin On His face. If he worried, he hid it. 1 He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn't be done —and He did it, Somebody scoffed: “Oh, you’ll never do that — At least no one over has done it;” But he took off his coat and he took off his hat, And the first thing-we knew he'd •begun it. With a lilt of his chin and a bit of a grin, . ' Without any doubting or quiddit; He started to sing as he tackled the thing That couldn’t be done—a\d ho did it. There are thousands to tell you it cannot be done; There are to prophesy failure; There are thousands to point, out to you, one by one, The dangers that wait to assail you. But just buckle in with a bit of a grin, Then take off yon coat ami go to it. Just start in to sing as you taekle the thing That “cannot, be d/oe” —and you’ll do it. , —Edgar A. Guest. “The World’s News”—l6/2/24.