GRIEF UNIVERSAL.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12086, 15 August 1917, Page 4

GRIEF UNIVERSAL.

(By WALT MASON.) It seems the cost of living is not a local ill; all round the world it's giving poor purchasers a chill. Beside the broad Nyanzas the people kick and roar, as buyers do in Kansas, when at the corner store. Where knobby alligators infest the stagnant Nile, it, takes, to buy some taters, the poor consumer's pile. By many an ancient river, by many a, storied lake, men pay as much for liver as they should pay for steak. Where sweet and spicy breezes blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle, the purchaser of cheeses forgets to sing and smile. Among the hills of Sweden, mid Greenland's snow and ice, the people's hearts are bleedin' when they behold the price. Along the dark M'Kenzie, and bv the languid Po, consumers, in a frenzy, are lifting wails of woo. The Esquimaux, when buying his tenderloin of whale, the Hottentot, who's trying to eat a hemlock rail, all swell the antrry .chorus, all weep and tear the robe; the grief we see before us extends around the globe.