A TRUANT HANDKERCHIEF.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 8002, 4 May 1904, Page 2

A TRUANT HANDKERCHIEF.

A handkerchief of English design and manufacture has been in ihe possession of the family of Mr James G. Colman, of Newburyport, Mass., for nearly seventy years. It measures 19in by 24in, and is in excellent preservation. It is pictorial, with tbe printed legend, "The Effects of the Railroad on the Brute Creation." Steam railways are portrayed, -with passengers comfortably sitting in coaches ; while the horses, looking on, lament their occupation gone, and are the embodiment of wretchedness. . They are mere skeletons, whose bones the carrion crows are waiting to pick. Meanwhile, the steeds try in unusual ways to gain their living. Three horses are playing violins and a bass viol, and another is passing the hat for contributions. Scrolls from their mouths read: "Please remember old Bill, the wheeler on the Liverpool Boad"; "Remember old\ Paddy, a leader on the Liverpool Road." Notwithstanding the railway locomotive, the horse has survived ;. yet in these days it is a common thing to hear, people complaining that it will be driven off the roads by the bicycle and the motor-car. j