JUST AS YOU LIKE IT.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 27 July 1901, Page 4

JUST AS YOU LIKE IT.

There being great diversity of opinion upon the constitution or nature of the abode of bliss, wo have taken the trouble to collate a few of them.

The Mahometan’s Eden is a garden full of women, while the Mormon’s abode of rest contains no female she womankind un-affimities.

Clergymen think it a place where they can preach for ever, and no one sleeps at sermon or collection time.

City Councillors consider it a great loan land, where accumulating bonuses will pay principal and Interest and yield huge surpluses wherewith to paint Town Halls red.

Harbor Boards think it composed of millions of bright and shiny planets, upon each of which they will bold a meeting. Mothers think it a place where babies arc born with teeth ad ready cut. Matt Guthrie’s elyshim to sing in a perfect concert hall accompanied by a ten thousand horse power organ —no critics admitted, and the free list entirely suspended. The writer’s happy notion to an abode where his articles will be published in their entirety without hypocraphieal errors, and be printed in the largest type, in the most prominent position of this most important paper.

The most rational idea however is an oft recurring Garrick Club social, with Perrotii and Scabrook directing the orchestra and the admission charges (ladies 1/-, gentlemen 2/-,) the sumo as upon the green old earth, if you are good and wise, and your health permits, put this statement to the test by attending the triweekly to be held at the Opera House on Wednesday evening. Seeing is believing, and furthermore, experience does it.