GOING TO HER WEDDING.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16750, 17 March 1926, Page 5

GOING TO HER WEDDING.

A LITTLE SATIRICAL OUTBREAK. (By a ManO I live three doors from the rectory, and next door to me, two doors from the rectory, lived till yesterday pretty Miss Celestine P . whose marriage, I trust, afforded her supreme satisfaction. II did not fail Io offer Io her neighbours food for their spirit of criticism and lilillalion for their sense ot humour. Not Faillnq In Humour. Celestine herself has nuile a keen eye for the ridiculous, and it is not so very long ago since, happonimr to sit hesiiTe her in a picture house. I found her to be immensely edified by Busier Keaton's laklnff his motor ear Io cross the street to the bouse opposite. I have no doubt thai if she did not live so near the church. Ihe door or which is immediately next door Io Ihe rectory, she would think il rather absurd of a bride driving from Ihe second house beyond Ihe rectory to the church—in absolutely irreproachable fine weather, too. But there it is! What we laugh at in others we do ourselves, unconscious of, absurdity. To the amazement of her neighbours, none or whom ever patronises a laxicab when an omnibus will do as well, and to the delight or Ihe incredulous, who must see a thine: with Iheir own eyes ir they are to believe il happened at all. a laxicab drew up in Tronl. or Number Five. After due delay Ihe bride entered it, passed at a snail's pace by Number Three and the rectory, and stopped dead at the church door. Celesline alighlcd nuile seriously and. surrounded hy Iho rest ot the wedding pari v. who had walked beside the Inxicah. proceeded into Ihe church I Quotation for Other Folks. We all quote, and most or us with Ihe correel Doric accii! anil even spelllnu of our favourile Hums: "Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oorsels as ilhers see us." but we do nol quite mean il. II Is poe'ie licence, of course, to say "oorsels" and "us" when we do nol mean ourselves al all. The quotation is emphatically nol for home consumption. We quote with unction the proverb. "Put yourself in his phro." which is forlunateiy so expressed as Io exclude us from its scope. We certainlv never think or pultitiT the oilier fellow in our place so that we may laugh at. him. C'a'mlnq V'orm Ceases to Charm. No! we absolutely refuse to consider ourselves in any ridiculous light. If we did, would charming woman ever lose control ol' her temper, as, unhappily tor her charm, she occasionally does? Would men lake Ihe "drop too much." which makes them look as silly as they themselves when sober find other lipsy people look"? The sighl ot a lop-heavy, reding. In—loxicaled person is rarely a warning. Onlookers will nol believe that they themselves could ever appear so ludicrous. The mnlive of comedy is Io hold up Io society Ihe reflected imasre or its own foolishness as a corrective, hut sociely, huijrhmg wilh a keen appreciation, will nol individually or collcctively lake Ihe lesson to ilself. When We Enjoy Homo Truths. The preacher, so vigorous and candid, with his telling home-thrusts cannot flatter hlmseir on the success of his preaching. His hearers have ears, yet do not hear: what they admire him most for is his happy knack of hilling off Iheir neighbours' faults and failings, not Iheir own. . . . This is the tragedy of salire also. that we who perceive it mosl clearly cannot regard il as affeclins ourselves al all.