NORTHLAND TRIBE

Northern Advocate, 30 August 1938, Page 2

NORTHLAND TRIBE

* IkAg "Advocate" Office, j * iMI I Wator St.. Whangarei. I | 'L-JLJ Tuesday, August 30, 1938. I m Dcap Northlanders— i I \\l& What do you think of our competition today? * * 111 The picture of the lady with the armful of kittens | ! ffl should give you plenty of inspiration for a title. And, : | HI of course, there's a half-crown waiting for those who i * Hi send the best entries. | ' \\lf By the way, have you ever had your eyes tested? f t ill The Princess laughs at me most terribly these days— \ * HI says I remind her of the Japanese houseboy, » and | | Hi other uncomplimentary things. | 1 HI Not so long ago, you see, I woke up one morning • I HI with a frightful headache. "Eyes may be the | f ||{ trouble," I said, and decided that Td better consult a * ? Ilf specialist I spent the strangest half-hour imaginable j I |fi in his little darkened room. I was asked to read » f If letters in, a mirror, and, With one eye hidden behind | I Hi a black lense, I had to judge lengths of black lines, J I || and make all sorts of weighty decisions about colours | | 111 and letters. \ i |l "Slight astygmatlsm, slight short-sightedness in f I If one eye, and a slight flaltening of the eye ball," pro- • | H nounced the optician when the interview was over. : f |1 I told the Princess, and that, of course, was my * \ H big mistake. Since then I've received nothing but | f |f teasing. Her teases were doubled when I arrived \ : |i home wearing a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles. * ? H However, I suppose she?ll get used to them in • t H time. Here's hoping. £ i U * All good wishes, my followers. |

• 111 Eangatira, Northland Tribe. I