MUSEUM DISPLAY

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 23, 28 January 1938, Page 8

MUSEUM DISPLAY

MR. FRANK TOSE'S VISIT

A pleasant function was held at the Dominion . Museum on Wednesday afternoon, when members of the staff, together with visiting representatives of other museums In New Zealand, met together to bid farewell to Mr. Frank Tose, who has just completed a class in museum work at the Museum. Mr. Tose leaves for San Francisco by the Monterey on February 7. Sir George Shirtcliffe, chairman of the Museum management committee, expressed the gratitude and appreciation of the committee to the Carnegie Corporation of New York for sending so capable an officer as Mr. Tose to teach modern methods of museum display. He hoped that in a few years Mr. Tose would be able again to visit New Zealand to carry on the work he had so ably started. Sir George also, welcomed the representatives of other New Zealand museums present, stressing the wonderful opportunity such a class as Mr. Tose has held to.foster a spirit of co-operation among museum officers.

Dr. W. R. B. Oliver, Director of the Museum, emphasised the value of Mr. Tose's visit to Australia and New Zealand, stating that he thought a new epoch in museum educational work had now commenced. On behalf of all present he handed to Mr. Tose a nut bowl made from woods of New Zealand trees. /• Mr. Tose, in responding, stated that it had been a great pleasure for him to conduct the class, as his pupils had been so receptive to his teaching. He hoped that the work he had begun would be continued.

but having their lives before them and their present interests to be considered they'are surely entitled to have someone to vote in their interest. The mother may vote, but her one vote gives Her no surplus power to protect her children, as the woman without children has equal , power and can nullify her efforts to protect her young. There may be some, there may be many, who will entirely disagree with this proposal, yet it has suggested itself to mo as maybe one small means of righting matters, and doing a deserved honour to our bravest and best. The extra votes would surely be valuable ones as they would be cast on the side of allthat isworthy ; -and^best,"

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment BY PERCY FIAGB Bertie Oldfleld and Clarrie Grimmett: Gone, but never forgotten. » « * At last the League of Nations- «*r claim a victory, even if it is only the defeat of defeatism. ■ . • * * ' Echo of the Great War: When the . Spanish loyalists, were about to be turned out of Teruel, they decided the place had no military value. Said Socrates: If all our misfortune* were laid in one common heap,,whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. ' — * * ♦ ■ . We- disagree with the Opposition Leader. Mr. Savage's prosperity panegyric v/as metaphorically an aurora borealis, not merely painted clouds. •.•-•♦ • • MEET MARY CHRISTMAS. Mary Christmas,. 18 years old, a business college student, of Evansville ' (Ind.), likes her name, but not the wisecracks it brings. She explained: "People say, 'Glad to know you—my name is Happy New Year.' It's very inconsiderate." For ten centuries, she said, parenti of every other generation of the Christmas family have named one girl Mary, after the mother of the Child of Bethlehem. • ' ■•'■'■•■' TRENTHAM. January 22, 1938. News note': "Caught by the eddying wind,' thousands of discarded totalisator tickets were whirled into the air, to descend, a 'shower of disappointment' on the crowd." Caught by the wind, they circle high in air, Small fluttering tokens of poor fools' . despair. An eddying cloud of shattered hopes, they float Again to earth—those tickets from tha tote. ■ V.R. • • ♦. • NOVEL ECONOMIES. Lot of us are a little worried about the steady advance in the prices of certain commodities, but at least everybody is on the same leveL In. . Egypt it's different. A system of five scales of prices nourishes in the Egyptian cities One for Egyptians'themselves. A second, 10 per cent, higher, for all the. Arabic-speaking peoples. A third, 100 per cent higher, for the black, brown, and yellow folk who do not speak Arabic. A fourth, 500 per cent, higher, for Europeans. And the fifth, unhampered ;by any limit and gauged only by the gullibility of the buyer, for tourists from the United States. We suggest that you cut this'- par out and put in a safe place in case, fattened financially by prosperity, you may one day trip off to Cairo. ■ •.■■■ •■.■■■ ■♦■ ALL FOOD'S' NICE, BUT— After we had risen (feeling good) from dinner one evening we lit a cigarette and repaired to our den and . an easy chair. for relaxation and ; a. spot of reading which had.no connection with the world's future or totalitarianism. It was then that we happened upon this par in an English magazine:—"At a dinner for 358 food experts the menu included snails flown from Dijon; a soup made from young ring-tailed doves; turbot stuffed with sole dyed green; roebuck cut into medallions and soaked in claret; a vegetable grown only in a five-square-mile area in France, and called cerfeuil bulb,eux; cherries soaked in brandy; French quail stuffed with truffles; an ice made from the juice of greengages,, strawberries, pineapple, orange, and blackberry." Our selfcomplacency faded. The rich warm dusk outside took on an autumnal tinge . . . our dinner had consisted oi corn beef and cabbage and sago pudding- *. *■ * ' : MULTUM IN PARVO. When '*c Wellington night-winds get busy, And the window-frames rattle and There's a' wonderful cute little gadget That you slip in the stormbeaten sash; And the clattering stops, and a silence, How blissful, comes soothing , your brain, And calming your nerves and your,, . temper, As you sink into slumber again. Yet this gadget is humble and lowly* No patent exists for its sake; If you want one, take up' a cracked} clothes-peg, And in twain let the wooden ■ halve* -■ For this gadget \is but a split clothes* peg; J _. ' But it ought to be Wellington's cresfe. For of all the great bafflers of storm* winds, It is surely and safely the Best. Bright and early on some Monday morning,- ■ When the weather is breezy and fine. ■ Like the fluttering flags of all nations. See the washing hung out on the line. As the breeze comes to fifty-an-hou* speed, Too often it will come to pass - That the clothes-pegs will split neattt the straining, And the linen lies prone on the grassThen there comes a swift patter of footsteps, As the house-lady flies to the scene, And perchance there's a frown on he* forehead, ■ * As she snatches "the clothes' from the green. But all! See the smile chase the furrow, As she gathers the precious split-pegs! And a neighbour looks over the fencetop, And for some of the" treasure-troy« begs. ■ • A» ♦■ * • ' MORE SLANG. Pedants there are in this locality (as elsewhere) to whom any slang » a No. 1 offence and a hurt "Be sorry for such folk," comments H. L. Mencken, whose book, entitled "The American Language," is something of a best seller. "Slang," says Mencken, "originates in the effort of ingenious individuals to make the language more pungent and picturesque—to Increase the store of terse and striking words. . . ." Hence such neologisms (American-coined) as "high-hat," "palooka,", "0.X.," "welded," "lohengrined," and "middle-aisled" (for married), "Reno-vated" (for divorce —a clever onej, and "infanticipating' (for expecting a child). Away back in 1840, neologists invented such colourful terms for "the demon rum" as "panther-sweat," "nose-paint" "redeye," "corn-juice," "mountain-dew, "coffin-varnish," "stagger-soup," "ton-sil-paint," and so on; and for dnink, "boiled," "canned," "cockeyed," "pifflicated," "stewed," "tanked," "pieeyed" and "plastered," "Lousy," in the sense of inferior, was more than two centuries old when it burst into American slang, "racket" goes back to 1785, "hush-money" to 1709, "rot-gut" . to 1597, "to grease" (to bribe) to 155% and <'booze" to the 14th century. .^ •