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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 658, 12 August 1921, Page 3

It is an open secret that ! the South African footballers did not relish the match they played in Sydney. They found the game there very rough, and foul play was painfully in evidence. When in Wanganui one of Ehe South Africans expi-essed . the opinion that on account of the level it had fallen to, the Rugby Union game in Sydney would die a natural death in a couple of years. From what he saw and experienced of it, he was not surprised at the majority of players and public preferringnther athletic attractions.

What is a tomboy? (asks Civis in the Otago Daily Times.) A tomboy say the dictionaries, is a. hoyden. And hwat is hoyden ? A hoyden, on the emas authority, is a boisterous girl. And a boisterous girl;—we need no dictionary to tell us—is the kind of girl that not even a boisterous man would care to marry. .King Lear was a boisterous man, the very type and pattern ; but King Lear knew what men of rough manners preferred in sweethearts and wives: ‘-Her voice was ever soft, gentle and low, an execellent thing in woman.”