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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 140, 8 March 1919, Page 10

"Making Good" is a slang American expression which means the achievement of what one set out to perform, said Mr. J. C. Jlerbsman in his lecturo on "Carry On" at the Chautauqua tent on Wednesday night. He illustrated it with the story of a negro in South Carolina, who sent a chameleon as a present to his coloured lady in North Carolina. After gaining an acquaintance' with tho animal's habit of changing colour in order to conceal its presence (a law of natural protection) sho wrote as follows to her beau—"Shure dat am de wonderfullest animal dat ever was. I put him on a piece of blue silk, and he dun turned blue, on a piece of grey silk and he dun turned grey, on a piece of brown silk and he dun turned brown. Then I put him on a bit of Scotch plaid, and he dun bu«t henself tryin' to make good!" Tho Island of Jersey contributed ,£75,000 towards the war, and Guernsey .£IOO,OOO, for which they have been thanked by the British Government.