BY THE WAY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 940, 9 December 1933, Page 9

BY THE WAY.

Some Collections and Reflections. BY ONE OF THE BOYS. The “ Star’s ” Talks on Health doctor recommends plenty of sleep. Maisie says it’s a lot of bunk. “ Inquirer ” asks whether jockeys are the only people the bookmakers can buy. In advice to women tennis players it says a girl should give up everything for tennis. They have not got much left to give up. London is at present enveloped in a twelve-mile bank of thick fog. Of course, it is disagreeable, but what an excuse! Women used to be considered a mystery before backless costumes and shorts were invented. Mary had a little lamb. Lamb’s eightpence in the city, And wool at twenty pence a pound. Gee! Mary’s sitting pretty. Pennsylvania has decided that standing at bars will not be allowed as it is too easy “to have another.” If you are sitting you cannot “ stand drinks.” It looks as though the insurance companies were the originators of the idea of the double-headed penny. Four centuries and a half after the murder it has now been proved that Richard 111. killed the Princes in the Tower. This should encourage our local sleuths to keep going. Byrd is taking three cows to the Antarctic. They’ll be able to get ice-cream straight from the wood, so to speak. The common labourer is only entitled to the necessities of life. The Wellington Chamber of Horrors has decided that the worker is “ unworthy.” This will save St Peter a lot of worry on Judgment Day. He will only need tg> look up the bank accounts. She was pretty. Edwin admired her. She was looking at the men’s socks undecidedly. Someone is going to get a pair for a Christmas present. Edwin edged along. “ How about giving me socks?” he said by way of introducing himself. She looked at him. She was one of the Tohe gymnasium girls, so she socked him. Yes, Ermyntrude, we are at your service. We agree that Tommy Patterson’s tennis articles are very good. We regret that he does not state whether eye shades should be worn level with the eyes or set at a snappy angle. Probably he overlooked it. As you say: ‘‘lf a girl can improve her game 50 per cent by wearing shorts, why should she not improve her game 100 per cent?” “ What do you think of the Beautifying • Association’s low fence idea?” I asked Ilam last night. “I’m agin it,” Ilam replied. “Whenever you see a high fence there’s a reason. It did not just happen. It’s to hide the family skeleton—the backward child—Sunday’s washing—poverty—the drunk—the fading of oldtime glory. I have a high fence." “ What is your particular skeleton?” I asked. “ I am myself,” said Ham. “ Lying about on Sunday morning in pyjamas too lazy to cut the lawn.” Ilezaliah Brown took his seat next to me in the Sumner tram, and said: “ Got a fourteen-valve super-het, dynamic, screen-grid wireless set yesterday and sat up all night. It was wonderful. Got KFI, and you should have heard Pink Elephants played by the Oshkosh Troubadours at the Los Angeles Savoy Hotel. A little static, maybe, but strong. Nearly as strong as Mexies. The Pink Elephants was sung by Charles Garbage and the fading was more than made up for by the wonderful Mexican atmosphere which could be imagined. A Sydney station’s programme was given by the Rushcutters Bay Boot Emporium. Pink Elephants was given by the Marimba Marionettes. Later Adelaide came through and Pink Elephants was played by Clarence Jones, accompanied by static. It was quite a tame ending to get Pink Elephants on 3ZC. It was tough that 3ZC had no static mixed with it and there was no fading. Hard luck, I say, for anybody that did not have a fourteen-valve, super-het, screengrid, dynamic set to get it as well as I did.”