FLOTSAM and JETSAM

Ladies' Mirror, Volume 2, Issue 10, 1 April 1924, Page 10

FLOTSAM and JETSAM

The latest "strafe" as quoted in a Southern paper is as follows: — When you feel very, very angry with your best friend, when you wish to relieve your feelings, you can unlock the floodgates of your wrath, not by buying a doll and sticking it with pins in all the vital parts to murmured curses, but by singing these few but deadly words, "I hate you! I hate you! And I hope all your rabbits will die!" 000 People may forget the wicked invasion of Belgium, but they will never forget that they purchased German marks. 000 . ; "Any old rags to-day, sir?" "No, my wife is away in the country. "Ah, any empty bottles?"

We quote from the Manaivatu Daily Times of recent date:About three o'clock, a smartly-dressed young woman stepped from her ear, threw her arms round a local letter-carrier on duty, and cried affectionately: '' Dear John!'' Before he recovered his presence of mind, or realised the possibilities of a romance, she jumped into the car and drove rapidly round the first corner. He is a married man, and his name is not John, so it may only be surmised that there was an embarrassing mistake, or that she did it for a wager. The curious feature about it is that if the sexes had been reversed the police would regard it as an "outrage," but the kissed one takes it quite philosophically, and is not disposed to speak of it. Charles Arnold once kissed his wife's maid, who was wearing one of her mistress's dresses, and explained to the French chef that it was a mistake. '' A gran' meestake," exclaimed the grinning Frenchman.

Any Government formed in this country will consist of British men and women, and not of savages longing to wallow in the blood of their fellow-countrymen. Mr. Oswald Mosley. 0 0:0 How often in the last hundred years, in the imagination of men of weak knees and little faith, has this country been on the verge of ruin? — Mr. Asquith. o o o The capitalist is as much the servant of his employees as the employees of the capitalist. Mr. Ernest V. Payne. • :

A French scientific investigator has given it out that ducks fed on fish lay green eggs and those fed on meat lay pink eggs. If only he could pursue his investigations further it would often assist a local bench if ducks, fed on game alleged to be illegally trapped, could be proved to lay poached eggs. 0 0 o We live in a most beautiful, mysterious universe.— Sir Oliver Lodge. 000 '' As before in history, we are standing paralysed between the old world that is dead and the new that is yet unborn. Such an interim is always dangerous.'' — Century. 000 "Wireless is coming between many a husband and wife and ruining what hitherto have been happy marriages. It is a far greater menace than the Other Woman. Wives are neglected while husbands tinker about with amplifiers. '' — Daily Sketch.

To judge from to-day ; s speeches the Eed Flag is not red, but a very pale pink. — Mr. Neville Chamberlain. 000 . Lenin did not go to the same college as the Marquis Curzon. J. J. Mallon. 000 To-day everyone is writing poetry or verse, while no one is reading it. — Mr. William Keith Leask. no o Just as everyone is wondering whether he will ever be able to meet his income tax, along comes the announcement that they have invented a new serum which will prolong life.

I don't think the world is going to come to an end. — Speaker. 000 Ether is the substantial reality; matter is merely a milky, cobwebby phenomenon. Oliver Lodge. 000 I do not believe that the public knows what it wants Mr. Charles Chaplin. 000 Headmaster (meditating on morning's correspondence): "Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children." 000 I would sooner sleep with Scotch thistles in my bed than with Mr. Lloyd George. Younger. 000 There is much injustice in the world, but life on the whole is just; indeed, that is the great trouble about life —that in the end it gives us strict justice and no mercy, Mr. A. Wyatt Tilly,

Accept the challenge of hardships. Soft jobs make soft people. 000 "It should be remembered that there is no ""enerosit-v in offerinc a woman the chance of fighting a hopeless seat on condition that she pays her own expenses. The party which does so is merely trying to get something for nothing by playing on the comparative innocence of women in the political game."— Time and Tide. 000 The centre of all literary decadence in Britain is the fall of the heroine." — Time and Tide. 0 0 0 The public is sick of elections and doesn't want another for years.— Mr. ,7. A. Spender.

There is no art that has suffered such degeneracy as the art of heckling.— Asquith. 000 Spokesman of auto party (to farmer along the roadside): "Do you ever go down to the city to see the sights?" "No. Why should I, when they go by here day after day in automobiles?" o o o "Where is the woman who is, after all, the woman of all our dreamsthe woman with the soft voice, the woman whom you" can trust to be attentive to your funny old aunt who has come up from the country?'' Westminster Gazette. 000 I have been dubbed the wild man of Parliament, but it is what I know of the tragedies of working-class life that makes me the wild — Mr. Kirkwood.

(Right) A wedding of interest, celebrated in St.Paul's Pro-Cathedral, Wellington, was that of Miss Irene Marsh, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. F. Marsh, of Wellington, to Mr. Harold James Softley, only son of Mr. Peter Softley, of Sanson. The bride's beautiful gown was of silver brocade with a train of white satin and silver. The two bridesmaids, Miss A. Anderson and Miss Jean Ellis, wore frocks of mauve georgette and pink chiffon, the same soft tones being carried out in their bouquets. A reception was afterwards held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Philp, Austin Street.

(Below) The wedding of Miss Jean Gill, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Gill, of Tinakori Road, to Mr. Beresford Hamilton, youngest son of Canon and Mrs. T. A. Hamilton, Christchurch, was a recent Wellington social event. The beautiful bridal gown was of frills of silver lace on deep cream georgette over cream satin. ' Miss Sibyl Clayton and little Mary Logan, both in wild rose taffeta, were bridesmaids, and the little page, Peter Nicholson, wore deep cream velvet. Mr. Brian Eeid was best man. A reception was afterwards held by Mr. and Mrs. Gill at their residence, Tinakori Road.

The pretty wedding of Miss Mavis Brigham, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs. J. S. Brigham, St. Stephen's Avenue, Auckland, to Mr. r. Bates Philcox, only son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Philcox, Parnell, was celebrated at St. Mary's Cathedral, Auckland. Pale pink georgette and gold lace combined with soft ivory satin made a charming wedding gown, and the bridesmaids were Miss Hattie Brigham and Miss Vivian Philcox.

A wedding of wide interest was held at " Tavana," when Valmai, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. \V. Crawford Burt, was married to Dr. Edgar Reay, of Christchurch. The bride's frock was of crystal beaded, mounted on satin, and her veil of hand-made Brussels lace. Her two sisters, Miss Marjorie and little Miss Joy Burt, were bridesmaids, and Dr. A. Johnston, of Christchurch, was best man. Dr. and Mrs. Reay have left for England, where they will reside for a year or two, the doctor intending to continue his studies and to specialise.

Miss Eileen Aitken, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Yitken, of Wellington, made a most charming bride on the occasion of her wedding to Mr. L. A. Chapman, also of Wellington. Her gown of ivory brocaded satin eharmonte hung in simple folds over an underdress of silver lace. Miss M. Fitz gibbon, bridesmaid, wore a frock of apricot satin with silver trimmings, and Miss Thelma Aitken pale pink charmeuse and silver. Mr. C. P. McNally and Mr. 11. Evan were best man and groomsman.

(Left) A pretty wedding recently held at Takapuna, Auckland, was that of Miss Nessie Wallace, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James Wallace, of "Belle Vue," Takapuna, to Mr. Roy Wilkins. of Greenhithe, Kent, England. The bride wore white brocaded charmeuse, the train of embroidered net forming a veil worn over a raised coronet of wide silver lace. Her two bridesmaids were Miss Cathy Wallace, a sister of the bride, and Miss Mary Anderson. Mr. George Glover was best man, supported by Dr. Syme as groomsman. A reception was afterwards held at "Belle Yue'' by Mr. and Mrs. J. Wallace and Mr. and Mrs. Wilkins, where a large number of guests were entertained.