THE CHANGING SCENE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1639, 4 January 1913, Page 6

THE CHANGING SCENE.

||;|}^;: ■ ; llvi^'W^---- : '< )'■ IBi M.C.K.] '; . ?■"'■' ■■<;£ ■>■■ ". "Bless it all," said, the; intelligent fo ;""^".;"eigner,- : *<it -is tho year 1013! How this ,v ? " pleasantl A beginning new! Tell m "y"'; '.' y^T '-old,''will', the.world be better now! i3^Vv--^::;;."Siiro:.it;:will/ , i ;wid\trio man who ha <)";;.;"."his-;,:Coat.; -Bulging with Resolution jjv' ■'■'%■ '''We've 'nil started afresh, Hippolyte." ,- |Mv:;V '3ut this'is::magnificent,' by. bluo! ■ A £■": change—not so? --The pretty year 191! politician;will hot-be endured,' eh *?.;■":'.;_ :Ohe will:abolish 'himi.The weather—l; W."""' will behave?.'.. One, will' lie.able.fo ; catc c".7" the .tram, .tod? .'Sir' /Hemes .will; mail -^ the;' railways ;pay almost like the brewer ; .outside .Invercargill?.'.-One .will. 1 , prohibi .'; 'Mayor, ; from boin f. absurd?j SirJßart will realise, that on (:■ no longer;-puts, as much money on' Barl t' :' ism the good • Bobrikoff ? • Ono wii t. '-;- hot wowse. or"; drink? Tho.Labour leade *,'•■;; .will.';begiif*ijil;.work?., Name'.of- a ,'na'mt ,/,: V ; >.-it'.will bo"',the year the most pretty, m; /•"■'-ll'./'-told!; v The!' papers .'will refuse to permi £/;', '■;!;" •; Sir Proßono '■ Publico to ..write let'tcrsf': V'/:'. :. no ' : so?"' Nothing of. more charming thai j"-I''? ; v.'- n)l. this-whioV-will 'happen in 1913, jTher 0 ; :":;;".wiinbo ho.:talk of "wars with; the" Ger fei' ; :'.3nan?y:The'evening paper will'ceased ti i^;.(;.;;:: ■ urge oh'e"to' i 'plant trees?'. The.Governmen &Y""|:":6f .Sir .Jtasse'y; will; be. removed—not. so !;-"" T ;:"v,Tha;t";iiero;"pf. iChristohnrch—wbs'r''is , i b:. thatrit-'i S ; that, one call him?— Ah,•)''.<) (j;; \-f: "wmiw,- ; Sir' Isitt,' ho' will cense 'to - tall v . and begin to think? "What hcrol Al , theso things are to happen, oh? My old iy it will be a ,world entirely new." V "Perhaps," said the man with the Reso K lutions. "Peihaps. But also, Hippolyte \ also—mark this carefully!—perhaps'"not AU I know is, I've given up: whisky'and . rcsohcd to read the Encyclopacdia.'-Sri-tannica this year." ■;■''' ■-'- < "As one 6iys,''deer misterr-perhaps! I don't think! But if all those things happened that I spo« of It'makes mo lad. But there is still tho cocktail,: one Issuro me ; To tho cocktail-forward, ■'■ my Id!" » ■ ' : . -..-. OOD FOR GISBOIWE CHAMPIONS. WELD'S RECORD WOP\bROKEN| "Food at last! "They have'broken tno lop, and good f luck to them'.-'-"We wish ley would come along and deal, th^eso lsborno champions, with one or two %- )rd steiks Tie know of" So weS.were leditating, in our checrfuUway,. .upon hoso headline? (m tho "Gisbome Times" >l Inesday), when wo wero, rattier dashed w find that the matter underneath 'was Jomo uninteresting stuff aboiitv'the :way (n which Charles Miley chopped a.-12-inch log in 23sec. - y>".. .'%■ One does not often se* tho Xaboiir partes paper, but on Friday-one found / it attacking Latin as on enemy of de- , mooracy. It is far'better, c-no,read, to , avoid a podantio linguistics" and studv , °S T matchicM labilities'- / of native English." For example,'this; You will find tho healing balm of forgetfulness has m nearly every caso'-'desoead- ' ed on the Cicers, Horace, andlCaeSarexacerbated mind of tho <raondom'linguist" ' You see, how utterly' tiuonddm'is the tongue of Cioers. W* shall '.'ansiouslvawait tho Labour party's -viows on Greek. . -. / :.-■■.:.■;>£ :■ "Well," said the man whose face was , the colour of ft ripe old tan boot; '%hich - of the summer games did you patronise? Tennis no doubt No? That's a'pity. For bettor than cricket, if,you chaps o'nlv knew it." < ~.-..:;•' "I don't play cricket," eoid tho small tum maji. "Not cricket?, JNow I come to think of i. „ llT* 6eo yonr 11ame Chess, perhaps? Of course chess has Hs pointß.but —oh, you were not in tho tourney?; Then doubtless it was bowls—marvellous':' l the number of men who chuck up the sponge" and take to bowls. There must have been ■ thousands of-you, to judge by. the .'rePorts." ', "I don't play bowk," said tho email thin man. '•'!.'- ■'.. '"' Tt"° h ' ° f conlso ' J Oll m a evrimmer. Havo no objection to swimming,-but. it needs a collego profosor to remember ail thoso things you havo to do when you 'are drowning-lcokinsr for tho current/- calculating tho tide, taking a deep breath » what? You don't swinl? Look here, I'll guess what 3on did. Was it chasing the a" horses' No' Then you ucro in the pingpong tourney at I'icton. Why, of course,' ~".io;ypu:;wero in Christchurchiployingiin'the ;,;■"?'■'■•*T? t l u ?t'."champioiiship! ; ' : Wrong -:ngain? ;;;v:"-.-;-'^mp?tinB : 'intte\reEatta , '?V'''You don't look' vV;•- liko .a : boxer, :bnt perhaps— '.■■■ Oh yon - ■ ; ~' : r « n '^.'-- I've named most i':; of. tho competitions and'so.on that were ,' : t';- -wpotted-vin the 'paper,:.but I' may have ';« ~;missed;.spmo,at -the- bottoms' of the col- . ~'.:;-;'nmnsr - cooncan-shark-fishiiig, beziquei,' :;-:: 'billiards,-' football, : ice-skating. ■-'• None ;";-,-;;: of thesof:What on earth,; then;- is ; -yonr ;": .:''' ;.eum.mer ; gaino ?,; ; ' What-, were .you doing ?". '$!, ': V : "'.'T?laying-*niT all-the-yeaT-round game," tl> efWvtho^littleMnan.; "Growing, old : hustfor a crust.";' y.'v- ~- ■:■'■ ''.'- ..'.-!:.. ■ti\:. '-MTJio 'weather is;mnch in the public ' ;.;. ; .mind, mainly-bscauso ithas"ceased to bo in tho pubiic's boots or on and through the «: .'■.- .public's' overcoat.. And nitlioiigii.thc puby. .. lio has enjoyed.the change, the Metwro- ' ••.,:.' logical Dopartm&'nt has not enjoyed'it at : -.■ all. Its forecasts glare so -in' tho light, of • .".: .a. continued, sunshiiie.: Still, it! did. its' '■ ».": -.best; .But th'e.Htfain.of. being i ;: weeks while, the sun shone ! ;. ...havo,been trying; All tho.variants must ! " ■ .have .been used up. More must -bo'jieed- i V: ; :l 6d. v and.". the"; Office I doubtless be grateful "for tho gift of 1 v-.'; : ft.few.new 'forecasts, 'in"which tho office's ' .. : :;" fine tradition, of impartiality i 5 carefully \ -; TGspccted: ■' .-.■'.'".-■ , -:.. ' ■ -" January •37.-Thc-,in(Hcatlons point ,prob-'' .;:.,: foly to the occurreneo of a possible nhomeo ' .. . In some., paxtsi hazy., to-.-wct :nnd dryVwea- - 1 t»e r ,.f?neral with, possibly, some uncertain 1 •.■■ conditions.-at-times.- ■-■' ~..■"'" .; ' „I l fe ar yJ?-- I!ain a,ld fl "o weather are J .-' ; Probable. Thcro arc indications that tho -..- barometcris not unlikoly to undergo pos- .. .. Bible:-variations. -' Weather, good or had ' - -is possible in,, all : parts. UnHs tho l , wfth" on the coasts continiies flue, hcavv 2 ' K'W. bo-expected in the future. A \:'--'iouth.e^t I "''" PPrOM > 1, ' B from tno west- 'j .':;:■■ March 0.-Cloudy and unsettled at times ( '■'■ '« Sctt, « 1 ' Probably, in other parts ] ; lad cations point to winds from the S * ...... north-west but .quiet weather is probablo 1 .Hail and U ? htn tig. accompanied by eartfi t ■ • Bottled, oha-nsrcable'weather, .with passing i - -^ D .V 4s Bimshino. poreibly wef s ■ - with.a short and uncertain drought, W a .. .' to. foggy, and wet and fine from the north v by ..south, is to bo expected in some parts I . 'It will save the Meteorological Depart- t ; ment still. further trouble if our readers I " .will be 'good enough to. cut theso' forecasts r ■ ■■;,:■ out. '. -'..v.'.'.' • '■. s .'• _" 1 ' i