SANDY'S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, 21 July 1950, Page 4

SANDY'S CORNER

SOMETHING NEW. She's a great coal strike in the Waikato! The men knock off (we forget what for) and nobody does a thing about it. The mines just stop. What sort of a strike would you call that? Maybe a ‘"silent” strike.

DINERS AND TikBLES Everybody in Wanganui should see the table display the Plunket Society has arranged, if only tc realise how attractive a table can be made. Of course there are those who say that beer taken out of a tin pannikan tastes just as nice as beer taken out of a glass. Maybe, but it is better to have the glass all the same! It is true, too, that many of us, when we sit down to a table too well set with the "Cbols of the meal,” we wait till somebody more genteel uses the “tools,” so that we can use them in their correct order of priority. We remember a diner once who looked at olives for a long time at a football dinner, and when he saw his mate eat one. said he felt he had been educated. “They looked like thrushes’ eggs to me," he said. There will always be argument as to whether you dine with greater satisfaction at an elaborately set table, than at one of more modest setting, but it does one good to sec a table really well set, and it is as well to remember that there is in table setting, like nearly everything else, an opportunity for the artist. There is an art in it, and we. alas, so often realise how unproficient we are in that art. How many times have we thought we’ve laid the table only to have Mum ask us: "Where’s the salt?" And in these days of rush and bustle, we are apt to* take many .< meal on our feet, as it were, and we are afraid that the homely practice of breaking one's bread into the soud. and then spooning up the soaked bread, would not pass muster where the "tools" of the table have that “genteel" look Wanganui now has such a chance to nwvel at. Another thing—perhaps u good thing if you can follow what we u can—what a lot of washing up they did in the old days! The man who sang “Leave the Dishes in the Sink" would probably have been locked in tile Tower of London, to await the pleasure of the Queen.