OLD LAMPS FOR NEW.
"he little girl across the way Turned up her nose at mo to-day. And all because her Daddy's cot A wireless sot. and we have not ; And she can hear Dame Melba sing, And concerts, and that sort of thing, While, best of all for so she said). She listens-in, when she's in bed Co fairy-tales by Radio— A gentlemen slip does not know. Who speaks a hundred miles away ! Oh! she's a lucky girl, you'll saw Well, yes. she is.' I think* so too. ' And yet I don't believe—do you? — That any wireless tune can bY-it Our blackbird singing clear and sweet, Or thrushes, with their merry song About the carder all day long. Or, when it's dark, our nightingale And —tnlk about a fairtv-tale '— 1 don't think Mr. Radio Has Mummies voice, so dear and low, And though he's very smart and wise, He. hasn't Mummie's sparkling eves! ° G. G,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18457, 21 July 1923, Page 4 (Supplement)
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