BREEZES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 June 1931, Page 5

BREEZES

Geometrical Vamp. “Maud has made some swell marriages, but divorced all her husbands. “Yes, she moves in the best triangles, so to speak.” . ® * * A Little Mixed. For days he had been going about his work, saying to himself “I see a sheet of flame.” It was the only line he had W speak at the coming theatricals, and übw, as he waited m the wings for his cue, he was actually trembling lest lie should forget those few words. At last came the cue, and he dashed on. “I she a seat of flame,” he y Ailed, and then, as the awful truth struck home, “I see a shate of ifleein.” . . . “I mean . . . I-see a flate of sheem.” Desperation seized him. “I slee a shate of fleem. ” Came a hoarse- voice from the wings: “Come off, you fool! ” But he was not to be outdone. As a last despairing effort lie yelled, “I slay a fleet of shame.” . . . Then he fainted. * * * * Beggar’s Life of Luxury, ✓ Police who arrested Frank Davis, aged 22, in Cincinnati, Ohio, for begging, found banknotes and coins of the equivalent of £3 12s in his cap. Further investigation disclosed that he owned an expensive motor ear, lived at a. leading hotel, and that his profits averaged £lO a day. f~he only essentials of his “business” e a pair of deformed legs and a littricycle. * * * » Woman Wounds Burglar. In the early hours of tfle morning, Miss Winifred Conroy, a poultryfarmer, who lives alone at Laurens Riv- 4 er Road, Strand, Australia, was awakened by someone attempting to open her window. She then saw a coloured man standing ou the sill. After challenging him, Miss Conroy fired through the open top part of the window with a revolver, and thinks she must have hit the man, as he dropped like a" stone. However, he got up and ran away,, and Miss Conroy fired another shot in the air. This is the second time since Christmas that Miss Conroy has been visited by burglars.

Archery as a Trade,

Albert Thompson has succeeded his in carrying on the 300-year-old aHpery business at Meriden, England, where for five generations liis family have daily manufactured bows and arrows. His work now forms the only direct English survival of this ancient craft. Mr Thompson was under his late father’s tuition since a child. Strangely enough, the business necessitates the rearing of turkeys in order to obtain twelve special feathers from each bird, 2000 of which are needed per year in order that Mr Thompson may feather.the arrows he produces. Exactly the same methods are employed as in the days when a form of conscription laid down that every English voutli had to put in two hours ’ shooting practice with bow and arrows of his own production. • * * * Proverbs and. the Moa. Several problems hitherto unrecorded and corroborating the belief that the moa was contemporary with the Maori, were quoted by Mr George Graham in liis Auckland Institute lecture on Maori One of these meant: ‘ The clWest of you two ds like unto a brace ofmoa,” the suggestion being that when two people were foolish enough to fight they need not assume that others were concerned. A tall and short species of moa mingled, and ‘'Here comes Kura-roa and Kura-poto,” indicated what the European signifies by the term, “the long and short of it.” There are signs of native memorised knowledge of the bird and its habits, apart from archaeological evidence. It is said that to this day there remain certain tracks over Tidges in certain districts where moas wandered in single file. They are “Ara-moa,” as distinguished from“Ara-Maori. ” A proverb referring to a party going across country said “They go on the moa’s trail.”