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Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13382, 3 April 1912, Page 7

Willio: "Did baby come from Heaven nurse?" Nurse: "Yes , dear." Willie: "Silly kid! Ho didn't know when he was well off." A young lady student at the Melbourne Training College has been the victim of alleged "ragging." She was lifted, out of bed, marched down the passage, and an acknowledgment of self-humiliation demanded of her. After sorao boot-blacking had been applied to her nose, she gave the required admission of humility. She informed tie principal that she only regarded the incident as a "jolly good joke." It * scorns strange that if the cost of living has gone up, as is often affirmed, the men employed at tho Makarewa freeing works in Southland can bo boarded a-t 14s per week, the food being of the best. It is affirmed by those who have givon the matter consideration that single men are better off now than they have been, and that it is due mostly to the raising of the standard of living rather than to increases in the prices of necessaries that complaints regarding dear living are attributed. Few people stop to think that their progress and prosperity depend on t-hafc of the whole of the Dominion. If they did, they would not need urging to buy Dominion made goods. Think of tho hundreds of hands employed in growing the wool, shearing, classing, selling, manufacturing material, then making KAIAPOI clothing and retailing KAIAPOI goods. Yes think—and act, as one's good sense would sug'gets.