GAMES AND GIRLS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 14043, 29 October 1909, Page 4 (Supplement)

GAMES AND GIRLS.

A MASH EH'S MUSIXCS. A well-known Pleasant Point angler Sjot tlie best catch of his life, the oilier day. lie was .swishing away with his minnow rod, when a screech from the reel and a howl on the .shingle made things interesting. Ho had housed his retriever dog by the nose, and as the dog mndo a. lice line for his kennel, and the angler was no match for him in with waders and brogues on, the line had to he cut and Iho catch allowed to home. Later on the dog underwent a nasal operation, and the minnow was recovered. Live bully has its funny side, and there are many ways of catching Mother Carey's Chickens than setting a rat trap. Ye tired angler was at Crow's Hole the other day when he Jaid his bully on the shingle and contemplated nature on the grasssy bank, and through the haze of I In; pipe of peace . The chicken, came home to roost, l-ut, seeing the squirming bully thought, he would have a nightcap before seeking the connubial nest. The bully went down and the sensation was so ticklish that the chicken went up. 'l'he whirr of the reel and the strange play of the rod, woke the somnolent angler, who at once rushed to see what he had on. Playing his catch was great, fun, .■mil when the chicken came to galf. claws and heal; were nse<l to such good purpose that the angler had a most fluttering time, ere the chicken had disgorged the triplets that bad been so (irmly embedded in the bodv of the poor little bnllv.

Marriages are made in Heaven, but the fount of love is mostly «n the Tennis Court. A mother of girls who much preferred an hour at the Tennis Courts to live minutes sickroom cookery often wondered what was the supreme attraction. So as an ounce of practice is worth a ton of theory, she (the mother, determined to have a look at tennis for herself. She was aunttcntive listener and was surprised to hear such remarks as \~> —love, 30-—love, and so on. Th.e lo and 30 were hard for her to understand, as, taken in years, one was too young and the other rather too old for marriageable age, and she wanted to know (in blessed ignorance) whether there was not a sweet 17— love, or an ardent 22 —love. For answer came a knowing smile and a puiver of the eyelash and the true light dawned upon her—the figures meant nothing, it was the magic word "love" that did all the mischief. Her girls had quite a bewildering time when at. the dinner table the conversation as u«;iial turned on tennis. As they had changed their partners so often in the games, and the cooing word of love was in evidence every time, she advised them that it was only fair to stick to one partner, and that it was also verv advisable llct the little word should not be so publicly spoken. Men were apt to get jealous, and too much repetition of even so sacred a word as " love," might drive them to the detio. Cricket as it is played in Timani is a lively game, and from its great popularity " bids fair to outrival football. Every Thursday both the Athletic Ground and the Park ground are crowded t<"> excess and thecaptainsexperience

grlM.t UiPficulty in . .selecting their teams. Matches, therefore, take a long time to play, so eager is the crowd of bat smackers and ball pitchers to show the power that is in them. This is good news, for it is too often said that not enough people go in for sport; the masses prefer to look on. It is quite a mistake for the great public to look on. or at least that big section of the X.Z. public who say that they can run rings round the complete cricketer and never got a pair of specs in their life. Cricket is a great, game, and every boy's ambition is to be a century getter. The street lamps know this, and so do the grocers'; the lamos register a fall in glass for every skier, and the grocer loses his kerosene tins by the score when the small boy has cricket an the brain, to say nothing of the mothers who bewail the loss of their pot sticks, and the fathers who wonder why their paling heap is getting so beautifully less.

Indian clubs —useful things to have about when a man wants to beat you for your most attractive girl. Hundreds of young men onlookers must have noticed this at the school garden party last week, ami if one changes the metaphor, what, splendid defenders of the hearths and homes over girls will he in Timani. The way the buddint: amazons twiddled the clubs was awe-inspiring, and a credit- to the artist, who puts in such a lot of lime among them. It is a war game that, however, requires dividing, for it was noticed that the forms divine were truly of the flesh that is weak. Indian clubs as an exercise like phvsic, requires lo be taken in .smaller do*es so that fair forms shall not droo» from weariness. » M( ] become bent and withered as though rude Boreas had breathed upon them: