DANNEVIRKE

Observer, Volume XVI, Issue 921, 5 September 1896, Page 25

DANNEVIRKE

C looked glum when be found that the mater was to accompany the sweet flower to the Oddfellows' social. It wasn't so nice, was it? But it was a poor revenge to let them go all the way home, 'so early in the morning,' without a cavalier. Surely they didn't teach you that sort of gallantry at Tahoraite. Great crush at the Oddfellows' dance. Fine show of wallflowers— a few double ones among the display. The boys were in great demand. Snpper, superb; music, ancient— that i-, 'time out of mind.' Aunty's too classical for dance tunes ...K W still pursues her studies in the metals. Taking impressions in solid ijickel is the latest, and appears to be very successful. Our 'you can see through him ' young man has developed a great taste for vocal music lately. His execution of 'On yonder rock reclining ' is a marvel. He puts such feeling and expression into it as would make the original ' Fra Diavolo ' green with envy...W B is about to build a new house. ..lt is a lucky thing to live in a country where marriage with deceased wife's sister is law, and the opinion is voiced by the many..J S wishes the pater would get a new Hebe, or reinstate M. .S looks a bit disconsolate. I hear him singing in a mournful voice as he wends his way to the school ' Alice, where art thou?'...Our ladies are decidedly improving on the bike. T has ordered a special carrier, and has decided to have it with treble strong saddle springs. ..T M lias given up his girl— all over a little huff. He says he doesn't believe in playing second fiddle. .If G W doesn't keep his mouth shut he ■will be ' putting his foot in it.' Nuff sed.