BY THE WAY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18545, 20 August 1928, Page 9

BY THE WAY.

SOME COLLECTIONS \ND REFLECTIONS. (By One of the Boys.) I’ll sure book a ringside seat at English Park next Saturday. Dunedin was be-League-red on Saturday. A ruddy dog-ngnt. A Scot spent a week-end in London and wished to see one of the most famous expensive restaurants in town, glass of water,, had a good look round walked into the restaurant, ordered a glass o f water, had a good look round, and then prepared to leave. The manager, who had been watching him suspiciously, cami- up and said: “ Look here, you come in here, order a glass of water, and then calmlv walk out.” “ Well,” said the Scot, “ you could hardly expect me to stagger out after a glass of water.” Sayings of Mussolini—“ The Italic? are mine.” To a backward pupil the teacher said: “If you never learn to write how will you be able to carry on correspon dence when you grow up? ” “ I won’t have to do any writing,” the boy replied cheerfully, “ because all of my people live in Christchurch.” Full many writers for the Press, When garbing news in gala dress. Have very circumspectly hedged Behind that saving word, “ Alleged.” 5C as A man who recently shaved off his beard, confided to a friend that his wife bad left him. “ It’s leave or be left these days,” the friend consoled, but asked whether shaving his beard had anything to do with it. “Yes,” he replied: “when she saw me without my beard she said: ‘Now I know why I never liked you! *” 25 M In order to let the public know the flapper’s side of the story, One of the Boys called this morning on Miss Flossie «Shiftlock, a flapper, and asked her to comment on the cabled report of the attack made on the modern flapper by Dr Mildred Stanley at the Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference. Miss Shiftlock said:— “It is simply horrid the way these people attack us. They only do it to get their names in the paper. I mean they know we are not really bad. And the dreadful names they called us! Do I like cocktails? Some of them are divine, but Jack gave me one at a party that was, simply rotten. I love port wine, I think it is simply gorgeous. But it is a positive fact that I have never had too much to drink. I mean I have always been a lady, because I think it is so positively disgusting to see a girl who has taken too much, because I think it looks so perfectly silly when a girl gets intoxicated. And it spoils her complexion. I mean it makes a girl so terribly red and her hair gets all messed up. I think it is so dreadfully silly all this horrible talk about us girls. It’s hard enough on us young girls already. I mean you have got to look decent or you have a perfectly foul time. A girl friend of mine lias such dreadful legs and the poor thing goes practically nowhere. And the boys have such a dreadful name for her. Well, of course, I use powder and lipstick. I mean a girl simply must or she would look a positive fright. All the other girls would sneer at her and the boys would leave her alone. If a girl has any sort of time at all she has absolutely got to use powder or she will look a positive fright. I simply can’t understand that bit about street women. I positively can’t think what Dr Stanford thinks. I suppose Dr Standard has met some dreadful creature and thinks all girls are like that. I mean Dr Stanley must be So narrow-minded. Anyway, I think the whole thing is dreadful, I mean it is so unfair and that is what hurts. If you like I can give you my photo, I mean I think it would be divine if I had my portrait in the paper. I did once, but that was only in an advertisement. It is simply ripping of you calling on me. but you can say I think Dr Stanton must be simply horrid.”