WEIGHTY MATTERS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 99, 26 April 1912, Page 8

WEIGHTY MATTERS.

WH \T THE EXECimVE OF THE A. AND T- DISCUSS. PASTRY AND FANCY WORK. Thu Waver ley correspondent of the Tilton Tress frequently feels called upon to say .something. Here are a few of his latest remarks:— Of a truth, a man, to qualify for the A. and T. executive, must be endowed with many qualifications. At their meeting on Friday evening such grave matters as pastry, fancy work and cabbages came up for discussion. One member dilated upon pastix, mentioning (reason unknown) tout only first-class butter should be used in the manufacture of tins villainous stuff. “What’s the difference P” asliecl someone who is evidently blessed with a gizzard. “There's a difference, s«.id he” “Don’t I know it!” Strange to say, nobody laughed—the subject was too weighty. And fancy work! The spectacle, o. these particularly masculine, practi-cal-looking follows deliberating profoundly over “pesky” fancy work was not without its humour. But they attacked the subject with enthusiasm that was marvellous. .1 licy talked about point lace and “some other sort of lace” (no one know wluu sort that was), they criticised darning at length, hut, of course, then authority on the “foci” of this important subject must ho admitted. One member described an entry as a “jolly antique old thing” (name unknown), while another (probably an angler—anglers do tell ’em, yea know) said lie heard of a sock dai act. •so well that the darns could not he Keen. <He didn’t mention wreti/! they could lie felt or not. We’d better inquire from the wearer. And so they went on, each wanting his neighbour to believe how much ho know of matters domestic, but not the most easily “gulled” could r.d himself of the suspicion that they ad felt they were on a “sticky wicket” —that they were on a subject too deep for words. The manner in which a suggestion to get a ladies’ committee to run this section next year was hailed with delight confirmed this suspicion.—Yet another example of the okl : saw “Deceivers ever!” After perhaps a half hour’s deliberation upon these matters beyond their ken, someone innocently mentioned that the pony section needed revising. A great sigh went up all round the table, and, judging by the expression on their faces, the members felt as if they had reached shallow water after floundering out of their depth. Pastry and sox, sausage rolls and cream puffs were tossed overboard, and the committee applied themselves to such subjects as— When is a hunter not a hunter P Is a ton horse one that can trot from Waverley to Wanganui with a rider weighing a ton on its hack ? (oi 1 was it pulling a ton weight?) Is a judge’s decision ever influenced by the fairness of a lady rider? There let us leave them. That’s what our reporter did.