BY THE WAY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18208, 15 July 1927, Page 9

BY THE WAY.

SOME COLLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS. (By One of the Boys). I wouldn’t be a weather prophet. Their work often turns out a frost. After hearing Mr Hamlet I am still of the opinion that a speech or two delivered at the impeachment of Warren Hastings will outlive his oration. It may have been a trifle i.logical, but it was magnificent. The very man who asked me to join him in a little liquid refreshment “because of the cold” is the man who, not long ago, proffered the same invitation for the refreshment because of the heat. That’s what I call consistency. I’m inclined to the belief .hat “the rude forefathers of the Hamlet sleep” in America. I m not too sure that this idea of painting golf clubs is a new one. I remember a man I used to go round with had one never-failing expression' if he sliced his drive. “The ruddy club’s no good,” he would remark phaticallyIt's snow joke, is n? Santa Nicastro invited Borino, an unwelcome suitor, into her room through the _ window and then shot him after failing to strangle him. My wife said Santa was a cat, and I said Borino behaved like a cat burglar, and must have thought he was Christmas. Then the wife said he certainly felt Santa’s Claws, and I went on reading the paper. x The latest batch of executions in Russia gives me a clue to the British bank’s refusals to discount Soviet bills. The Bolsheviks are making too many capital charges. The R.S.A. last night gave a social to members and their wives and fiancees. They do things differently in the Navy. There they drink to “Sweethearts and Wives and may they never meet.” “The Country Girl” provides several items of the light opera programme over the air to-night, but at the end of the programme we’re going to get “Pearl, Peace” from the “Country Girl.” It’s no use arguing with some people. I explained to my fat-headed friend last night that Hawke’s Bay shouldn’t ’ ave the Shield because (1? They shouldn’t have challenged twice. -2) They shouldn’t have played Barclay. (3) They shouldn’t have gone into camp. (4) Their forwards are rough, and (5) They’ve had it long enough already'. The ass replied that Hawke's Bay have the Shield now because they’re a better team than Wairarapa, and if anyone doesn’t like it all they've got to do is to go up to Napier and beat the Bay. What’s the use of arguing with that sort of person? X JC 3C A rather deaf lady found herself sil ting beside a surgeon at dinner. She asked: “ Should I call you Dr T or Mr T ? ” 44 Call me what you like, madam,” he replied, and added, genially: 44 Some of my friends call me an old fool.” “ Ah,” she rejoined, not hearing correctly what he had said, but anxious to be pleasant, 44 those are the people who know you intimately! ”