SPINDRIFT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16735, 17 May 1922, Page 6

SPINDRIFT.

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The New Zealand Fruitgrowers have decided to start a publicity campaign advocating the value of fruit as a regular article of diet. If you’re feeling run down AYifch the fast life of town, If there seems a ton weight in each J boot ; Don't go to the quack AVith your liver attack : Simply tone tip your system with fruit. If you come home at night All wound up for a fight Then believe me your diet’s all wrong. Eat a russet or pippin And you’ll soon feel so ripor.t' You'll want to break out into song. Keep the doctor away AVith an apple a day. The proverb has ordered it so; And your action will be A T ery helpful to me For I am the grower, you know “ AY hat do you think of this dry kiln business?” a follow workman asked of Mr Hennessy. “ Sure, it is the first toime Oi’ve heard nv it.” said Hennessy. “ but army koind av killin' is good enough fur some gossoons.” Advice to Motorists. —If you want to find out what is wrong with your car try to sell it to a dealer. He will point out more creaks, groans and diseases than you ever thought a motor-car was heir to. Bernard Shaw says that the only wav to abolish divorce is to abolish marriage. lie might gb further and abolish death by arranging that there should he no more births. An unusual auction sale was held m Napier last week, when a large of whisky and wines was offered. Naturally the bidding was \er> spin One of the Australian howlers stared behind in South Afrira and united for the next boat, refusing to share liis cabin" with a German. —Cable. Thev talk about the beaten Han. And how we should forget lus doin s That we the German should not shun. lirrmise he laid the world m rums. I will not listen to their wail ; If anv gory Prussian bandit Comes near my cabin when we sail. I will not stand it. f Forgive your foe,” these buffers <■ Forgive your foe, shake hands and

bless him ; Salute him with a- greeting gay: To your cigars and whisky press him Oo'jot arise with angry mind. But calm liis soul with pleasant man

ner. , And FritJrio you will shortly nnu Beneath your banner.

The Bosche is not a wicked man

He merely lacks the proper training. And hence it is the better plan To treat him with respect onwamng Do not take up a distant stand ■ Do not adopt a manner cub-ish: He soon will ootne and lick your hand I say it’s rubbish. Tlie Hun you talk so much about Can not to virtue be converted. Unless at first he’s well knocked out. And finds himself severely hinted The Bosche brought on a reign ol f ear ’ . . ... So now a fig for all his railing. AVhate’er lief all 1 shall not hear The Prussian’s wailing. You’d better take my baggage home— I’ll share no cabin with a German: However far I chance to roam Ell have no dealings with the vermin. T know my attitude is sound. And that. I’ve stated the position : So now I hope that * twill be found a good, tradition. While two fishermen were taking their launch to the fishing grounds, a shark raised itself sufficiently from tho water to topple into the boat. Tt i\a> killed with tho greatest difficulty.— Sydney cable. Tho secretary of the Sharks’ Social Societv. interviewed regarding the above* said the incident could only bo characterised as regrettable* in everv way. The deceased was highly res peeled in. all swims of life ; lie was n churchwarden and a teacher in the Sharks’ Sunday School. “It is ridi culous,” he said. ” to suppose that our late member, in so throwing himself out of the water. entertained an> thoughts of hostility towards the boatmen AVe have always had respectful feelings towards fishermen, and. since the last rise in the price of fish, we have treated them with the utmost kindness, recognising them as kindred souls to ourselves. No, mv friend was not hostile: he always was a gentle fellow he would not injure a lamb and when he caught a bather lie used to eat him a little at a time, so a. not to hurt him too much. T am sure he only meant to he playful, and if one of the fishermen had put his hand out of the boat he would have rubbed his nose against it. Poor fellow ! He’s gone now ! But let me tell you that if there’s any more victimisation of helpless sharks, we'll hold a meeting and break off friendly relations. In fact we we’ll got quite cross about ic ; so there you arc. AVhat is it warns me that winter is coming? Is't the tree? growing leafless and bare ? Is it tho frost on my window at morning? . Or the nipping cold of the evening air? Is it the days growing shorter and shorter ? Or the heat of the bright sun growing less? No. T have a guide that is safer and It’s the cough cure adverts, in the The special correspondent of “ The Times” at Genoa says that the oil question has now entered the political sphere. This should smooth th« troubled waters. Lord Northcliffe. speaking at the Empire Press Union luncheon, said: “ The danger of ignorance within the Empire was largely caused by high passenger rates and high cable rafes These things could not be overrated.” But- apparently they are. A naturalist travelling in South America. announces that he has discovered a lost race at- the foot of the Andes. The office boy says that he discovered several of them at Rleearton on Easter Monday. The liquor question- AVhat will you have? STXR A D.