PERSONAL PARS.

NZ Truth, Issue 80, 29 December 1906, Page 1

PERSONAL PARS.

pies a, position as' committeewoman, or something, on some superfluous body, and who ought to know better, rose and asked the other day if Nature study fn schools meant studying each other from the nood, as the artists have it. If so she, thought it was shocking. The old girl knows better now.

A' T«npleton (Chr^tchurch) '-boy," Dr. Isaac Thompson,', who has . been appointed head of the Union.Hospital, Newcastle-on-Tyne. was educated at the Christchurch Bovs'VHigh School and Canterbury College, and was subsequently a student at - the Otago University. Then he. went to England, and* his career since has been one of success.

A queer-looking character has just passed out at Christchurch, m the person of Marshal Nalder, who looked after the Supreme Court .library. At one time he was m business himself. He had a penchant forscribblme poetry and under the name of "Pakeha" was well known. Nalder, who always dressed m lmee pants, was 50 at the time of his death.

A bloke nanjed Mr Napoleon Bird has established a non-stop run on the piano m the old dart. During 4-S hours he played 1500 separate compositions, twice for dancin" and also accompanied three concerts. Mrs Nap. Bird sat by and sprayed her musical rooster with, eau de coJoene whenever he showed signs of dowsing The performance caused him to catch violent cramps m the legs and a big purse of boodle.

The colossal lines on which American millionaires' gifts are sometimes run, is a staggerer. Andie Garnegie, to encourage aquatics, last week presented the University sporting boys with- an artificial lake 3£ miles long, by 400 to 1000 ft wide, and invited them to buck m at the nice, clean water games,, m white flannels and blue caps, and leave football, which Was a dirty, ungentlemanly game; for culohawed youths, alone. But the youths very rightly commenced to ruck at the aspersions cast on theft beloved game of toeball, and threatened to pursue the game at any cost.

The Princess Royal, who has latterly undergone a serious operation, is best known as the Duchessv of Fife. Considering she -is a daughter of Kino Ned, the royal lady has led a remarkably retired life. After she married the Dook, who was a bit of a flier before that event took place, they settled down to a quiet existence arid but rarely appear m public. Most of their time is spent at their Brighton house, which is a most unostentatious dwelling. Princess Royal showed; what she .thought of royal dignity by obtaining special sanction for her s two , daughters— the Ladies Alexandra and Victoria Duff— to be exempted from the title H.R.H., although as scions of the royal house they were fully entitled to the honor.

Constable L. Mclver, of Auckland, has been . transferred to New Plymouth, and m the interests of those cow-spankers who are m the habit of comins 1 - into Taranaki's chief town o' Saturday nights and painting Devonstreet a lustrous red, it's as. well they should know something of the latest bluecoat arrival. Mclver holds the middle-weight amateur wrestling championship for Auckland and the drunk he gets __ holt on might just as well succumb qxiietly to the boobing prooess for Mclver 's a fair 'divil' of a peeler when he gets goinp-. A few years back he rescued two women and a man. from a burning house m Auckland, and a R.H. Society medal he possesses bears witness to the fact that the deed was meritorious.

Christchurch C. W. Carrington has been discussing the word "lady" before a parcel of girls (young ladies would, perhaps, be the better term), and he says that the honor, or compliment of being called a female of that brand had sadly degenerated. Even a washerwoman applies it to herself now, says Carrington, who revives an old joke m that awful, tedious paper "Punch," wherein a dreadful- old woman, with her face all bound up. entered a chemist's shop and asked the assistant for something for it. On being asked how she came by her injuries she replied, "Another lady stouched me." That apueared to Carrington to be the lowest level reached by the word "lady." Well, Carrington needn't trouble himself about Maoriland ladies ; if he makes too many observations about them his washerwoman won't douse his duds, and he'll have to scrub his own floor, if he owns one to scrub, and he. •'will lose ouite a large number of threepenny- bits, and his hat will fade, and things will go to Hades generally. The girl who isn't a; larlv these, days is usuallv* something else, and Carrington '--'-'st take a pull' on Ivs tongue else he., have even the ladies oi the town o' to him.

, ; kawyer McGonneU , of Ghri^tchurfcfi» never wears a tie: /Possibly he looks upon the frontal ornament.. as .a piece of. needless extravagance, dr, m his case, unnecessary adornment.

Mr B. F, . Evans, of thc. Sydney, "Sunday Times," interviewed by a' local reporter, could only, find "one .thing to say about the Zibishun and tfia.t;.was'--'tliat' ,r 'tlie knoxvleflge that they couldn't, get a drink m the grounds had : ,kept many from attending: the big show. Knowing Mr Evans well, that is just what it might have been expected he would, deplore ! '

Chief Detective _ McGrath was the donor of a fiver towards the Home Rule Cause when the acid was put on the audience at Eijvov Devlin's meeting last week. It was quiet and unostentatious on the 'teo's pact, m fact quite "humble sinner" publicanlike, not like others who sought as many quid's worth of adviertise'me&t for what they parted. M.ay McGrrath's fiver further the, cause. Material sympathy of that .description for „ country's cause makes converts where fervid oratory often fails.

Miss Button who has. caused .such a lot of talk among visitors io-Q'-Neill's buckj urn pine; show ai. the 2Ub'ition. hy provinp: herself a champion, bas been -addicted to- matters turfy, all her life. She lives at New Tirigb'ton, and has bred and -raced both racers nnd trotters, training <Mm hsrself. At on? time she ; -applied to the. Trotting Club for a perm.' . to steer her' own' '"'neddies, ' but -the reouest was refused. Mis B. U •_. tailish woman, approaching middle nse, with a touch of masculinity m '_pr countenance. Indeed she wiffi'-.-.was a man.. At any rate, the is. Perfectly fearless when handling the biggest outlaw they' bring .along. ■">'■' ■'•' "•'■*■ -■ v '- ■" '» "-. '■' *

_■'.'■ _.Miss...:.'_[2il$ v «, . Harbutt ,ot .Auc^lacd, was married m that city, the other day to Mr Stanley 'F. Allen,, of Sidney. The weddinp- was .carried ou.i on the Quaker principle, and is aliKost the first of its kind celebrated : in Auckland. During the opening unis-ic the bride entered, accompanied .by her mother and two sisters, who -acted as bridesmaids, after which the-meet-ing of friends waited m silence According to the custom ot, friends. Tho contracting parties, facing the meeting, declared m their own words that m the presence of God and before those present they took each other as husband and wife, after which several friends spoke encouraging words to the bride and bridegroom.

Chief 'Tec Chrystal, of Christchurch, is of a very poetic tempera-, ment. He can talk poetry .to you- by, the hour, and is grfat on quotations. Fact.js that when he was very young Chrystal had a great idea of .taking up the stage as a profession, and learnt most of the ,good things m English literature with that . end .m view. But he didn't persevere m that direction ; he suddenly became qi_yte a" 1 serious person, and had thoughts of the church. So he attended courses ot lectures on divinity given by Dr. Salmon, Trinity College. : But eventually, he broke awa*** and made for Maoriland where quite a large numbed- bt people have no desire to make his acmiaintance— m an official sense, ol course.

In a recent issue of the Sydney "Daily Telegraph," . a paper that : is an adept at the filthy folly of fouling its own nest, a woman signing herself "Mary Hamilton" writes on' the subject of importing slavey wenches from " 'Ome," and in' earnest support ol | the idea, thus : "Then as to their, chance m" tlie marriage market, it would stand td reason that fresh, healthy, fairskinned girls from a cold climate would be moro desirable wives -and future mothers to the sensible working men than - the thin, sun-dried maidens of Australia." The dreadful person ! Why, there are as buxom, rosy, clear-skinned lassies m Australia— particularly m the New England, Bathurs't, Blayney and* Orange districts and m the Victorian interior, as any under God's life-giv-inflr sun. If any New Zealandet doubts this— secure of thc pre-emin? ence of his own rosy, healthy, entirely delightful countrywomen— let him (or her) take cognisance of the glorious womanhood of Williamson'*' chorus <**irls now m Wellington ; not only on the stage, but as they walk the streets and eat their meals m their respective hasheries. They are all Australian natives, and a finer, clearer-skinned, healthier-looking lot of absolute beauties of abounding charms, could not be seen m any nart of the world. And that m face of the undoubted fact that late hours and the continual make-up do not conduce to purity of complexion. As to the choice of the men How would the squealing "Mary Hamilton" account tor the fact of i'o I many officers of the local fleet be m? cantured m matrimony by thc "thin, sun-dried maidens of Australia." Prohablv Mary is c . vinee.ary specimen of stagnant virginity, . herself.