FROM THE WATCH TOWER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 417, 27 July 1928, Page 8

FROM THE WATCH TOWER

By “THE LOOK-OUT MAN."

SILHOUETTES OF THE SESSION No. 12: Mr. A. Ham-is Is popu\ar in Paris. He objects to an advance In our tariff rates fo Franco. THE DE H AVI LAND DUET Captain G. De Haviland and liis wife have established a record in flying to an altitude of 21,000 feet in a Moth plane. Their favourite song, sung as a duet, should be “I’m Sitting on Top of the World.” CONTROLLING DROUGHTS A cablegram announces that an official drought has been proclaimed in London, and several well-known lakes near the city have dried up. With this excellent control upon nature, it will only be necessary to proclaim the end of the drought, and then the lakes will fill up again. UNNECESSARY QUALIFICATION “There are still many men in New Zealand who cannot write,” said an educational expert recently. Some of them earn salaries above the average in spite of their handicap. Apparently there are more novelists in New Zealand than we had imagined. FROM BUENOS AYRES Wellington girls are having a royal time at the moment. Not only are the Japanese visitors in port, but a delightful ' cargo of cadets from the Argentine arrived on the training ship Presidente Sarmiento. Spanish cadets . . . what a delightful combination! And you know how these Argentinos can tango! Unfortunately, the Presidente Sarmiento will not come Auckland’s way, and there is a blaze of indignation in “the younger dancing set.”

SISTER SUE’S TROUBLES “There is no harm to a boy iu a penny dreadful of a good healthy type,” said Mr. F. A. Garry before the Educational Society. “Little Sister Sue” writes: “I seen what Mr. Garry says, and I feel mad becors Bill and Reg have just read ‘Blood on Bucking Horse Trail’ and I have been shut up in the ole cole sellar for two hours and they hav© rode the 3ofa to shreds and mother hasn’t saw it yet and now there trying to scalp our pup and the cat is tied to the bedpost for a lien, and Bill sez he’s going to get ‘The Rattlesnake’s Revenge’ from Willie Jones for tonight and lam desperit. Yours trully, Sue.” THE CONSTANT BEGGAR

Stories of infant precocity are usually associated with a smirking child and an offensively proud mother, but the L.O.M. cannot resist the temptation to, tell a story of a little girl he met on Sunday evening. The child, a very young one, had returned from church, and the following dialogue took place: Mother: What did the minister say, dear? Child: I don’t like that minister. He is always begging for something. Mother: What was it this time? Child: I didn’t hear that. All J. heard was that it was for the third and last time of asking.

PLUNKET SOCIETIES Sir Truby King, speaking at Vancouver, urged Canada to adopt tlie Plunket system for the education of mothers and the care of babies. He will find, on his return to New Zealand, that the Auckland branch of the Plunket Society, although thriving, is in urgent need of funds. Accommodation at headquarters Is already overtaxed, additional nurses are required, but cannot he engaged for the obvious reason. There is no need in thi§. country to. stress the admirable services of the Plunket Society, nor the advantages of supporting a system which has been applauded by" the whole world. But as the baby needs sustenance, so the Plunket Society needs a ready stream of contributions to maintain its usefulness in the community. The president of the Auckland branch, Mrs. W. H. Parkes, has issued an appeal for support. The society is in debt, and immediate assistance is necessary. There must be many who are prepared to assist in so admirable a work if the needs of the society are brought before them, and the Look-out Man trusts that this paragraph will attract the eye of quite a number who are, as Mrs. Gamp would put it, “so dispoged,”