SPINDRIFT.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16848, 26 September 1922, Page 6

SPINDRIFT.

headers are invited to send in original I'ij.ical paragraphs or verses for this oolamn. which is a daily feature of the ' Star.” Accepted contributions should be cut. out by the writers and forwarded to the Editor, who will remit the amounts Stable. One man in the crowd played the bagpipes while the lea Kiosk was burning. It was Nero who set the fashion of having music at fires. His famous violin sonata at the burning of Borne is a classic. Elderly and middle-aged married men are always nice to plain girls. Having married pretty girls themselves. they have found out that beauty is only skin deep. A sixteen-ton road roller broke its axle and' obstructed the tramline in Worcester Street last Friday, and according to the newspaper report “it tv as not long before a crowd of fortv to seventy people had gathered.” A statistics fiend who happened to read the report was moved to prepare the following problem: It the breakdown of a sixteen-ton road roller draws a crowd of forty to seventy people how many would he attracted by a collision between a child’s push-cart weighing seventeen pounds and a boy on a scooter weighing six pounds. His answer is .392 to .687. POTTED BOOK REVIEWS. “ Life,” by Johan Bojar. Deadly “The Enemies of Women,” by V. Blasco Ibanez. Rats. “ The Kaiser’s Investments,” bv J. Hocking. No Interest. “ Q.” by K. N. Burt. AD. “ The Ragged Edge,” by H. M’Grath. A ripping yarn. Tho Brightener.” by the Williamsons. Not a dull spot. “ Snowdrift.” by Hendryx. Left me cold. Binks: I’ll pay you when my shoes v car out. Collector: What do you mean by tha i ? Links: By that time I’ll be on my feet again. recently communicated ~ the interesting fact that in America some roads bear this sign : “ A thrill at every corner."' or something after that style. “ God’s own country” is hard to beat at anything! Tho great Pacific breakers crash like thunder on the shore. A thousand fragments white with foam to congregate no more. But oh, the thrill of twenty hours . aboard the Mararoa Amidst the moans from green faced ghosts that aught but bunks abhor ! With “ strawberry boxes ” by the load dispersed by kindly hand, And waves that crash and smash and roar till passengers can’t stand, Ob, could you ever find a thrill like this upon the land. Although I shouldn't care to ask that groaning little band ! And while the quiet flowers distil their To see in east or west or south a sudden lurid glare, To grab your grid ” and go and watch the burning building there Would surely stir the slowest blood and raise the tamest hair! To watch the sun’s eelpise by day, the traffic cop by night, At forty knots your mangle ”on to speed without a- light. A thrill at every corner in a broad and stalwart form— And frenzied dash, a youthful laugh., a shelter from the "storm ! What more'could any tourist ask his anxious time to fill? j What could he ask of kindly life in shape of further thrill— While “Glad-eye Corner” draws the youth and magnetises still. You surely couldn’t ask of life another jolly thrill! “How to be Photographed."'- -Under this heading 1 recently read some very interesting things, and. seeing that the chief "desire of those who wish to he photographed is to be flattered and not photographed, permit*me to suggest a few hints for amateur performers. 1. The Bride : Arrange bouquet in conspicuous position, drape veil gracefully around your oval face and gaze pensively down on one slender foot as if visualising the future. The bridegroom? Who’s likely to look at him? He is merely the background ! 2. The Surplus Woman or “The Unclaimed Treasure ” : After using two bottles of hair-regenerator, positively genuine, makes the hair soft, thick, long and wavy, brushing for twelve consecutive minutes daily and getting arm-neuritis in consequence, buying a new brush, last one haring moulted owing to excessive use. unloose your now flowing tresses to the four winds of the photographer’s studio and with a sweet smile curving your warm and womanly lips, await results. Who knows but that it may not' prove, more effectual than the “ agony ” column of your paper or “ Murdoch’s- Marvellous Matrimonial Bureau?” Only three or four guineas a time, too! 3. The Infant Prodigy: Seat in a deep chair (such as used by professors and men of noble birth), brush hack the golden curls from the broad, high forehead. and display the long shapely fingers in full view. Through various means not unknown to the genus parent. make prodigy gaze earnestly in front, with a pained expression in the angelic, dreamy eyes, and a cherubic smile illuminating the striking young countenance. Most effective! 4. The Dramatic Aspirant: Don most picturesque of theatrical costumes, assume false beard and pose. Meditate on these beautiful lines, “ And. rising, the Marquis paced the

floor like n caged lion !” With the bodv in a most dramatic, attitude, tear witu one hand, but very warily, the false wig, convulse features into an “expression of diabolical hate,” leaving only whites of eyes visible and twisting mouth into a “ fiendish and most Satanic grin. Some will think you "Macbeth, others Oheron, some Mephistophelee and still others a lunatic. The party labelled as Reform In full array has sallied forth. Resolved that they will take by stor.n The citadel of Christchurch North. By strange and weird arithmetic Their paper has quite clearly shown All other parties they must lick, The vote has always been their own. For it .appears, though T must say, The process is not clear to me. That when a person votes for A His vote should really go to B. The Liberals have held this seat For years and years without a loss, Which prove that now they face defeat ; In fact they havenH got a poss. ’Tis very hard for simple folk This reasoning to understand, Unless it’s meant to be a joke Of some peculiar subtle brand But still it seems without a doubt Which ever way they may devise it They sure will have their work out out To pass the buck to L. M. Isitt. SJNBAD,