Shaun’s Patch

Southland Times, Issue 21220, 22 October 1930, Page 6

Shaun’s Patch

K little nonßenao now and then It relished by tb« wltett men. —Hudlbrtt.

Melisande in gold brocade, A work of art, in Paris made, Trails an alabaster band On the marble balustrade. Blackened skeletons of trees Scar the high, empurpled seas And Melisande looks long upon The star encrusted canopies. Afar, the music of a dance, - Times her blood—here calls the chance { To ears alert, to straining heart, And points the star-way to Romance. . And Ethelbert,: this silent wait, .So filled with lotteries of fate, Sighs, and shivers all to bits: “We must go in, my dear; it’s late.” # * * * Some scientists have at last turned water into wine, but think how long ordinary men have been turning water into whisky. EDUCATIONAL AIDS. G.T. proposes: Give a sentence containing the word “judicious” : “Will the judicious in a matter of money?” »** * » THE INNOCENTS. She thought the missing link wgs a golf course. « - * * * A.K. has this to say: Her play in the Ladies’ Golf Championship is certainly O.K. MODERN PROVERBS. All talk and no say makes Jack a dull boy. **s , * Flights of fancy: To the moon. » * * * A.K. says: Original Yarn: Home spun. * » « The polite engine is the one which knocks before you enter a garage. **« _ , * It is a wonder the Higher Critics haven't discovered that there was an economic depression booming when “Mother Hubbard” was written. **>;>» Would it be right to say that a bigamist suffers from enlargement of the heart? * * * * There’s an “1” of a difference between “tipping” and “tippling.” * :;s * * The critic in the Education Gazette is annoyed because Mr Butchers in ‘‘Education in New Zealand” uses such a colloquialism as “the tail wagging the dog.” Just think of the difference between idiom and idiot.' *** . * • What is the law of the egotist? An I for an I. Balloon tires. Of what? . * # « * One of the nastiest things you can say about any woman is that she looks like the wife of a man who married for money. * » * * Developing stuttering. Even linotypes are not immune. Here is a line appearing in a northern exchange: (CONTINUED ON NEXT PPAGE.)