THE CULT OF GAIETY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17545, 23 May 1925, Page 18 (Supplement)

THE CULT OF GAIETY.

'By u. b. rxcn:.) «f calied hoi- “Baby Mino ’> ! Her chief object in life appeared to j be to keep the hotel cheerful, and she ] was always gay. She sang when she j awoke, she sung in her bath, she sang ! over her coffee and rolls, she sung in j iho lounge, she sang in the garden. ( When the sun shone, she sang; when it. rained. ,b. sang . She vas always bright and gay. ! dimpling into smiles at the smallest. ! ot jokes so small that nobod v else! could see them. Her hair was so fluff-, and her man ; ner so skittish that one imagined her j to he just out ot the nursery. But i experts declared that she would never ] see thirty again. . . We should have rejoiced ‘.n her presence. For what better office can anyone fulfil than to scatter happiness broadcast, like a fountain sprinkling water. And yet The old gentleman who suffered from deafness was the first to complain. He had always lamented his inability to hear music. "It cuts me off.’’ he complained, " from one of life’s greatest pleasures.*’ But- ho heard "Haby Mine” singing the first day she arrived. and on the second day lie talked of moving on. •‘Good heavens!” he grpwled, '• it s not a voice, it’s it syren. I’ve heard those things when listening in.” A lady guest hud toothache. She said her tool'a throbbed an accompaniment to 1 ' Baby Mine’s” singing. She went to the dentist, but 'he- refused to take out the tooth. You’re run down,” bo said, ‘‘you need a change.” " But that’s what I’m having.’' she explained. " I don’t care.” he insisted. “ vou need another.” Poor "Baby Mine”! We all needed a change. For she liad quite worn us out with her insistent gaiety. And the moral I* 1 The moral is be happy, but don't- be aggressively happy. Don’t sing all day. It’s good for your lungs, but bad for other people's nerves. Take j a little time off. Don’t- sing in your bath, and try to bridle the vocal in- i struct at meals. So will your friends j love you and your enemies leave you f in peace.