FROM THE WATCH TOWER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 565, 18 January 1929, Page 8

FROM THE WATCH TOWER

By

“THE LOOK-OUT MAN.”

CURVES REQUIRED Mr. C. B. Cochran states that the day of the slender revue girl has gone. Producers will give thin chorus-girls a scientific diet to fatten them. The shapely forms our fathers knew , That tended to obesity, Departed from the smart revue. Instead, we soitght simplicity. The fashion turned to slender trimness , And experts' learned to treasure slimness. But C. B. Cochran’s made it known, By stating with profundity, That flesh must amply clothe, the hone, And thus achieve rotundity. Barge curves must flow from, toe to torso, And round the hack the same—but more so. Producers, deeming slender lines A dreadful abnormality, Will stoke the girls with vitamines. This handsome hospitality Sounds splendid—but suppose the ladies Tell Mr, C. to go to Hades l T. Tohekoa. BIRDS OF PREY A cook was fined £2 at the court yesterday for stealing fowls. Tough! BIBLES AND S.A LTS Charity’s range of generosity is remarkable. One of the gifts recently handed to a collector on behalf of ail Auckland benevolent society was a warworn Balaclava helmet. Its owner had been persuaded by the heat of an Auckland summer that at last it could be no further use to him. The same collector one one of his rounds landed a canary cage—empty! This particular type of generosity recalls the heartfelt cry of a missioner on the lonely Island of Tristan da Cunha, in the South Atlantic. Sympathetic people send this island (which recently figured In the Watch Tower column because it is to have wireless installed) every conceivable kind of gift. But Bibles and Epsom Salts predominated. “Doii’t send us any more Bibles,” wrote the resident missioner recently. “We already have ‘enough to last for years. Some households have six or seven. As for Epsom Salts —we have over 200 pounds awaiting consumption!" SHADE-LOVERS One of the vigorous expressions of backblocks shepherds calls a lazy dog a “Sooner,” because he would sooner He In the shade than chase the sheep. The category must be extended —but without reproach —to include the hordes of city tollers who these days make the lawns of Albert Park their luncheon table. They would sooner lie in the shade than on the sun-drenched lawns, and every little circle of shade has its tenants, the broad shadows under the big palms being especially cool and commodious. The sun moves on, and the shadows with it, and the practised diner moves too. DIAMOND TOM Diamonds have a notorious fascination for pugilists, some of whom have been pretty rough specimens themselves. Hence many “leather-pushers” have become diamond dealers, but only from the purchasing angle. When the time came to sell, if the gems had not been given away in one of those moments of lavish generosity that oldtime - pugilists used to indulge in, the diamonds were usually unloaded at n ruinous figure across the counter of a pawnshop. All things considered. New Zealand’s Tom Heeney is show ing as much originality—iu deciding to become a diamond dealer when his career with the gloves is finished —as Tunney showed when he went for booklearning and a millionaire’s daughter. Hitherto worn-out boxers have been content to spend their declining days at poultry farming, or some other bucolic engagement. Not so long ago the rugged Heeney was a carter, shovelling sand into a dray. O Lord, for a straight left!

CREDIT STOPPED There was more than met the eye to the recent cabled intimation that Lady Heath, the wife of Sir James Heath, the ironmaster and colliery proprietor, had resigned from the presidency of the British Women’s Aeronautical Society. Ostensibly Lady Heath, who is a mere 45 years younger than her husband, was resigning in order to fly through Canada, the United States and South America, as a reply to the successful African flights of her great rival, Lady Bailey. By announcement in the London Press, however, it is now disclosed that Lady Heath’s credit was stopped by her husband, who issued a polite variant of the formula, “I will not he responsible for any debts contracted in my name,” etc. In reply Lady Heath said: "I am a self-supporting individual,”