THE QUIET NIGHT.

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19457, 22 December 1934, Page 23 (Supplement)

THE QUIET NIGHT.

ANTI-NOISE CAMPAIGN. The anti-noise campaign has certainly done ■ good work in ‘England, and already the people feel the effects of the zone of silence. Tor -one Thing they can hear the Zoo lions roar a dawn mU'Cih more clearly ‘than they who want to sleep do not wish to hear any noise at all just that muffled night murmur which means London. But people , who are iu ‘for a sleepless night may feel dif ferently About two in the morning, being by then 'beyond all hope of sleep, they are beginning to get really bored and might like to hear a little life now and again. A friend had a -sleepless night in a house near Regent’s Park, and she listened in vain for any sound that might cheer her up by giving her some detective work to do, says the Children’s Newspaper. If only a few cars would go round that corner with a bad grinding scrunch and a coarse horn the picture of the 'car and the dnvci could he constructed. So might the whole life and career of a late passcr- * There was one heavy-footed dragging walker, who wont by her window taking lo himself about half-past Iwo. Iu llm dead silence she heard lmn civ iincrilv: “And 1 ..shall just tell her what, I think." That cheered up lhc .sleepless one considerably. Out ol Ihe, Tool, ol' Hercules she .shaped a beautiful slat no. Then •ihe hours palled again. She thought longingly of riverside London where yon hear Ihe. barges and "'S Hen talking together. She wondered how soon market raids would com" pattering hark from (hivenl Harden. ,\iilhin'g happened. A policeman went by mi rubber soles, ant shipped so long jus! al her door Hint she began In gel nervous wondering whal she hN,d dune and if she vvjs suing lo bo iiotured at d,uwn.

Then suddenly, in ithe dead silence, empty of all hoots and horns, the lions awoke and began to roar, and she felt a little more comfortable. She was no longer alone. The lions were there just round the corner. Long before the first gleam crept Into the sky that hoarse eerie thunder rolled up out of the park, stopped, and: began again. Some other and very weird noises, cries, and barks joined with the lions’ roar, saluting the 'coming day.