BY THE WAY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 852, 28 August 1933, Page 5

BY THE WAY.

Some Collections and Reflections. BY ONE OP THE BOYS. Although we still read of Blue Shirts, we fancy we have seen the last of blue jerseys for a while. The Otago “mascot” was a bullocks shinbone. Unfortunately it has not the “ kick ” it once had. An advertisement says that once a corset was an item of upholstery. And ■woman was a padded “ sell.” There is a proposal to broadcast bellbirds’ songs. Care should be taken to put the cat out before tuning in. Prisoner (charged with theft) : I was driven to it, guv nor. I have been without food, shelter and emplo3'ment for a long time. Do ’ave pity on a poor bloke, yer worship. Magistrate: I have every sympathy with you, my man. You shall have food, shelter and employment for six months. “ Ticket, sir,” said an inspector at a railway terminus to a gentleman who. having been a season ticket holder, believed his face so well known that there was no need for him to show his ticket. “ Mv face is my ticket,” replied the gentleman, a little annoyed. “ Indeed,” said the inspector, “ well, my orders are to punch all tickets passing on to this platform.” Augustus Saint-Gaudens used to illustrate the development of art in America by a story of the past. He said that in the ’forties a rich Bostonian built a fine house in the Back Bay. He decided to adorn the lawn with statuary, and, having heard of the Venus de Milo, he wrote to Rome for a copy. The copy duly arrived. It was marble. But the Boston man no sooner got it than he sued the railroad company for 2500 dollars for mutilation. lie won the suit, .too.