ON THE TRAIN

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXI, 12 June 1926, Page 2

ON THE TRAIN

A USE FOR Oil. IIE GRASPED OPPORTUNITY i Wlion tin .'ininial finds something now.* lie sniffs it to see whether if is good lo wit, and if it is not lie passes it by. When a man finds a- new substance, Jio flies in every possible way to find wiseliter if can be nU.de- to serve- Jiis needs. ‘1 once saw a young man, fresh from the soil, on Ids way to llie city to make Ins fortune." writes a correspondent in,' the Auckland Star. ‘‘When lunch time! arrived—we were 'travelling by train—! he itattled a tin of sardines out of Ids' pocket. When he opened the tin therewas nothing in it but oil- Sat dines _ are I sometimes packed in olive oil, and iri this case they had forgotten to put in the sardines. The young lellow could not eat the oil, and he did not want- to waste it, so lie used it- for greasing liiSj shoes. Now they had already been j blackened, and when the youth had used hi.s greasy .hands to rub a cinder from his eye, lie looked as though lie had come from Central Africa. Hilt 1 have always suspected that lie succeeded in the city. 11 is motto was to make everything serve a purpose.