WHERE THE JUDGE LAUGHED

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8178, 3 May 1919, Page 1 (Supplement)

WHERE THE JUDGE LAUGHED

FUN IN THE LAW COURTS.

Sir Edward Carson thoroughly enjoyed himself some time ago in the Probate Court which he had transformed into a sort of legal Toy Fair. Nicely displayed on a ledge which showed them to advnntago were dogs which wagged their tails, monkeys which jumped, ra.bLilt* which ran. bells which tinkled tunefully, and a very lively jumpingjack. There was also a fine assortment of picture books from which Sir Edward read such lovely an dmoving lyrics as : Little Tommy Timkins Ran a-1 blown the lane; Never let his hoop fall, Then ran back again. And still more classical, Elsie Tomkins grown so fine, She won’t get up to feed the swine. In a gramophone case some time ago the judge asked what tunes they had in court, as he would like to hear some. ” Don’t have a common song,” he said. “ Play something nice. Something by Melba, or Caruso, or Tetra.zzini.” Vt last the selectors put on “Queen of the Earth,” by Caruso, and the judge listened with great delight. Trying on a costume is not uncommon in a dressmaker’s action in the County Court, but the course taken by a, certain judge the other day was probably unique. Confessing that he knew no more about- ladies’ dress than ho dliu about the costume of the inhabitants of Mars, ho asked all the in court —about twenty—to go with t-lie defendant into a private room and j wig's for themselves whether the dressmaker had done her dutv. The feminine verdict was “ A bit too long. But easily retne-