BY THE WAY.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20537, 12 February 1935, Page 5

BY THE WAY.

Some Collections and Reflections. BY ONE OP THE BOYS. A complaint is made that the post office will not give “ Time.” Application should be made to the Justice Department. A backward working girl has a brain equal to a professor’s, it is said. Aha! Too many term holidays, professor! The Prince of Wales is now learning yodelling. There is a feeling in Scotland that this will help him to compose further bagpipe music. A correspondent desires to know how to cure tobacco leaf. His next request will no doubt be how to cure himself after smoking the stuff. " Monkey in Cooler,” reads a headline. It couldn’t be expected to pay a fine. 55 ♦.* 55 Although it has been said that great battles have been won on “ the playing fields of Eton,” great wars seem likely to be started by international games in other parts of the country. ii The ejtf-Crown Prince of Germany recently placed before Hitler the exKaiser’s financial troubles. It is rumoured that Hitler sent the exKaiser a copy of his own master work, "My Struggle.” 55 55 55 Correspondents are asking why certain women cricketers were not included in the New Zealand team. Perhaps they didn’t wear their caps with the right side-tilt, or had not a dental paste advertisement smile. . A six-year-old Jewish boy can say the alphabet backwards, read anything and add four columns of figures at a glance. But to be really successful he should be able to determine the winning horse i before the tote closes. i