MULTUM IN PARVO.

Otago Witness, Issue 2689, 27 September 1905, Page 73

MULTUM IN PARVO.

FROM D.LJ.-DOM,

Last Tuesday we had a very good defcate on the question "Which is th? Happier, the Millionaire or the Peasant 9 " The arguments on both sides were very well brought out, the judges, Areta, Jeannie Deans, and J.0.Y., deciding that the peasant was the happier. I really must compliment Lulu on the excellent way in which she conducted her leadership, her argumeats being clear and to the point. This is the more lemarkable, as Lulu has taken part in so few of our debates. A word of praise is also due to Emerald for her splendid leadership of the peasant's side. Last Tuesday we received a letter from

Lenore, resigning her position as librarian. Areta was temporarily installed in the position. I am sure the club will be a geat loser; but I am also sure the club can depend on Areta to satisfactorily fill the blank caused by the resignation of Lenore.

Everything was i n chaos last Tuesday. We ■had T.B.A. in the chair, A. Ned as secretary, and Harry, "general reporter." It was very amusing to listen to some of the speakers' opening remarks, when they addressed the chairwoman as "Mr — cr — er Miss ChairMAN," "Mr Chairwoman," and greatest insult of all, "Charwoman."

It is not often we see two such, powerful I club opponents as T.D.A. and A. Ned joining in friendly discourse; but, in the passage last . Tuesday week, that was the case, and even last Tuesday our two club-mates at the head of the table made an excellent picture of "The Heavenly Twins." Thus T.D.A. in speech: "'The aim of the Teally cheerful person is to be little, to know little, and to do little.' One who is little can become greater; one who knows little can know more, and one who does little can do more." Looks a regular little puzzle, doesn't it, L.F:?

Well do we remember the time when a certain L.F. iyouth, whom we shall call Mr Cremepufs, took the cushion from under him and sorely belted another L.F.s thinking spparatus. He then went to sit down •gain, .but in the interim a fair maid had removed, his chair. Bang! the house shook, and the echoes rang, and as Mr Cremepufs turned away to seek consolation, the L.F., as one man, burst into a loud and hilarious laugh. Thu^P does an aggressor fall amongst his fellows !

Whilst a party of I«rF. -were standing on the corner of High and Princes streets last Friday evening, they espied a D.L.F. chum coming towards them with a beaming smile on his visage and, a look of expectancy in his eyes. Suddenly the Kaikorai .Band struck up, and the look of expectancy changed to a look of alarm and the beaming smile to a heavy flown. Without a word of greeting away he dashed, evidently bent on the extermination of the band, rank and file. However, the sight of an "arm of the law" brought him to his senses, and he gradually drifted back to his comrades.

We have heard of Mexican heroes executing a "Lasso "Waltz," and of Indian braves doing a war dance, but until last Friday week we had nevsr seen a real Texan doing a "Cushion Dance."

T. I. C. wants to know the name of the member who received a rather severe bump on, the head from a heavily leaded cushion when he sat tin the wrong seat ? Once upon a time, a youth, who was known as "The Lengthy One, ' sat upon the floor, and another youth, who shall be known as "Our Original Member," in joking strain, printed in large capitals on the soles of the giant's feet "This space to let." Then the giant arose ana waxed wroth, and smote the original one hip and thigh, that he cried for niercy_.

DICTTUE. — Th?t Vida was taken by surprise last week when a party of L.F., some 27 clrong, under the leadership of Scobie, paid a vr=it to her paternal home. — That the Mormnglon Tramway Co. contemplate lur.mng a special car— an especia'ly Etiong one too — to accommodate L.F. the next tirce they visit the hill stubivrb. — That there is much co.isifleiption down south as to the possibility of the pi eduction of a monthlj. in a form yet to be decided upon, of comse under the paternal wing of the Witness. Wouldn't it ceern funny, chums, to hear of ''The D.L.F. Monthly," or "The Invercan?iM D.L.F. Club's Monthly Journal." — That a terrible shock came to a certain L.F. on t2is occasion of a recent jubilation — whilst sitting with her back to the fireplace! — That D. Y. K. always comes to light with "Well, I think it's time we sang 'Auld lang syne.' ' Quite light, D. Y. X., one would almost think that your initials stood for "Do You Kindness" — not io us, you know, — to our nost or hostess. — That T. J. is going to the Kaik in the convict boat "Nile." Don't be alaiined L.F., ha is only going on "biz. ' — That "Do you know Charlie Kearns?" was the universal query last Ttiesday week. — That S., as "garcon,' excellec' even the most agile Parisian. — That a verandah makes a very good ballroom. — That "Jimmy G-o Hon" is the latest "honour" to be tebust upon our genial — That Tomahawk declares he hasn't had a shave for 16 years! No wonder he needed a moustache cup. Thai's all. T. I. C.