LIFE EXPENSIVE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 10995, 6 February 1914, Page 4

LIFE EXPENSIVE.

(Bv WALT MASON.)

The cost of living still goes up. and trouble round us thickens, and yet whene'er we dine or sup, we've porterhouse or chickens. To make our wails have proper force Ave should be lean and scrawny, but we've the muscles of a horse, and we are fat and brawny. The portly man gets up and whoops about the cost of living, while to his form some costly soups a genial warmth are giving. The clubman wrings his hands and whines, the' Cost will make us vagrants, while to his breath imported wines impart a pungent fragrance. Wo should bo hollow-eyed and thin, our slate like washboards showing, if we'd denounce the men of sin who keep the prices going. But nearly all the kieking's done by fat and fussy sinners who have their pockets full of mou, and swallow four-course dinners. I do not hear the toiler wail or breathe dire threats of slaughter; he eats his dinner from a pail, and helps it down with water; he and his children shed their woes, and warble "Yankee Doodle," and to the moving picture shows he takes the whole caboodle.