BY THE WAY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18901, 28 October 1929, Page 10

BY THE WAY.

SOME COLLECTIONS AND REFLECTIONS. (By One of the Boys.) She was only a Christchurch daughter, but she had her gallery. “Women are all alike.” “Yeah, each one’s different.” “I heard your brother tried to get a Civil Service job. What’s he doing now?” “Nothing. He got the job!” A railwayman says that the new locomotive whistle is already proving useful in the country. The young bloods who drive motor-cars are using it as a starting whistle for the race to the level crossing. “I did one. charitable act to-day,” remarked a business man as he sat down to dinner. “I’m glad to hear it, dear,” said his wife. “Tell me about it.” “Oh, one of my clerks wanted an increase in salary, so that he could get married, and I refused to give it to him.” The teacher had been giving a lesson on “Safety First,” with special reference to travelling in trains. On seeing a small boy who looked as if he had not been paying much attention to the lesson, she suddenly asked the question : “And why must we never throw bottles out of a carriage window.” Answer: “Because there’s tuppence on them, miss.” First Student (to one playing saxophone): Hey! Don’t you know there’s a sick person around here? Cut out that racket! Second Ditto: Yeah? Who’s sick? First Likewise: I am—sick of hearing that damned sax. I listened to Mr F. L. Hutchinson’s lecture from 3YA last night on beautifying work. No doubt Mr Hutchinson is an authority, as he is a member of the Beautifying Association along with Messrs E. 11. Andrews and R. B. Owen. Mr Hutchinson said that Art was always true. It did not deceive. Plaster work must never imv tate stone work. Wood should not be painted to imitate marble. Yet Mr Hutchinson carefully shaves off his whiskers each morning and goes to the city with a face like a woman. Messrs Andrews and Owen pretend they have no whiskers. That is deceiving and therefore not beautiful. I hope, at the next meeting of the Beautifying Association, all the members will have full beavers. But it is in other ways that the Beautifying Association is not sincere. Why don’t they try to brighten Christchurch' with their clothes ? No. They wear the usual grey suits and make the city drabber. Couldn’t Mr Dudley Dobson, as president, wear a purple Roman toga? This would be dignified and at the same time beautiful. For Messrs Bradley and England I would suggest blazers, say, red and gold stripes. This would give the needed touch of colour. From the two tallest of the society, Messrs Marshall and Tillman, I would expect big things Bright satin costume and picture hats of the Cavalier days. Let the association remember that beautification, like charity, begins at home.