BY THE WAY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 366, 7 March 1932, Page 4

BY THE WAY.

Some Collections and Reflections. (By ONE OF THE IOVS.) An actor, they say unkindly, is a man who suffers from “ I-strain.” A scientist observes that the world is in an awful mess. We know. We watched the politicians pulling it to pieces. Pillion girl, after accident: “ Well, I’ll say this for you—you have the decency to fall off with me, and that’s more than I can say for some of the fellows I’ve ridden with. Legislation is to be brought down to register poultrymen. The idea is good. We'd like to see Mr Hawke, Mr Green and Mr Liggins with rings on their legs. Our anglers are much perplexed that the salmon are running late this year. This is indeed difficult to account for, but perhaps the fact that they are lato is the reason why they are running. I dunno. A Linwood Club member says they are making Rugby a girls’ game. Been to one or two dances lately and studied the girls. There was a very fine back there, but my wife said she was forward.^ They replaced Kerr and Cleverley, Got Vivian to bat. They said our fielding was no good, And they said this and that. But everyone in Canterb’ry, Everybody knew. That Merritt would have got them out, And made a hundred, too. Teacher: “We borrowed our Numerals from the Arabs, our calendar from the Romans, and our banking from the Italians. Can anyone think of any other examples? ” Charlie: “ Our lawnmower from the Smiths, our sewing-machine from the Jones’s, and a pair of steps from Miss Evans.” Scotty Fraser, who made a parachute descent yesterday, is a teetotaller, and yet he often says: Another little drop won't do us any harm. Mr S. F. Marshall, from 3YA, said that 27,000 people in Canterbury keep fowls. But there are only about six people that have fowls that keep Jhem.