THE LUMBER ROOM

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 196, 4 September 1937, Page 4

THE LUMBER ROOM

"PAUL

PBY."

Philip

Henderson.

J, R.

Lowell.

Ruth

Hedger.

By

Euterprise: Over 100 years ago a youth of 18 journeycd from Cap_e Ood to Boston to seek his fortijme." Diligeut searcn failed to reveal k job, so he set about to make one. Casting about among some refuse,. ho found a board suitable for building an oyster-stand on a street corner. Then he borrowed a wheelbarrow and went three miles to an oyster smack, wlicre he purchased three bushels of tho bivalves, and wheeled them to his little stanS. He sold all his oysters in one day, and continued in this pursuit until he had saved 130 dollars, with which he purcliased a horse and cart. Presently he was able to move his growing business into a commodious building, where he continued to prosper. Thus did Isaae Eich lay the foundation of a great fortune which, after his passing, provided for the establishment of the Boston University. The Bishop at a Loss "The most diseoncertiug reply J have received to th© question, 'Why don't you come to church?' is 'I've been.' 1 did not know th© right retort."— Bishop of Exeter.

The Swimmers. Lacing their arms with. th© smooth water Sunlight has made their hodies silver. Oool waves divide their passage. They, Careless and prodigal of shining drops Resolve their limbs into an element More ethereal. For now The wide path of the water holds Swimmers and clouds interchangeably ; The sky is seen. to move along jfcbe earth Aufl men quite na,turally to swim aCross the sky. Now are the clouds dissolved in water without rain, Green and darkened by an earthly motion And water is become a gjesture of the air. Lacing their arma with tho smooth water, Th.'v move across the earth and e>ky.

Such Power Is Dangerous. "I wonder_ Mr Hinckman, if you realise tjie magnitude of my conception. The world control of the entire film industry. Our revenues would he greater than the budget of any hut a first-class state. Our sphere of influence would be unbounded. By /the typ© of film which we chose to produce we could influence the mass psychology of nations. Fashions, customs, morals, could be propagjated by will — we should even he able if it suited us to fill a whole people with a mad desire to make war on their neighbour — or if we considered that a whole univorsal Janguage would lead t0 a world peace we could induce the children of all nations to learn Elnglish, by a decision that our talking pictures should be made in no other tongue. "We should have power to do either endless g(ood . , or boundless evil." "Such Power is Dangerous." Denis Wheatley. Man is Mad. Man is certainly stark* mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozen. Montaigne. Marcifu} Providence. A marciful Providence fashioned ns holler 0.' purpose that we might our prinniuloa RWnllp.r

A Sizzling Hornplpe. Shearing by machine, when done by an expert, looks easy. Simple until the tyro tries it. My sheep, a big wether, refused to sit etill, preferring desperate bids for freedom. At the first lull in his frenzy I jabbed the knife into tlie wool in what 1 thought was the right manner and place, just above the brisket, but it was like delving into the Cossack's whisker®. Tlie shcep blared its protest and galloped the lengith of the ehearing board amid wreck and disaster. Forgetting the first rule of the ehearer's code, I dropped the handpiece, which executed a sizzling hornpipe on the floor. The comb was broken; that would set me back halfl a crown. "Gettiug One's Wool off in lau."The Roadman Speaks These 'ere ditclies wants cleanin' they be bungj full of sentiment. .... A Little Meas.ly Talk. A little measly talk over neighbours is right enougH ; it do make the day go a bit quicker, and sends a body to bed with a cliuckle. Mrs Ellis's "Villager." Tho Tell-Talet. Jackdaws in t' 'oller tree cries 'Jackl Jack! Jackl' 'Ark at 'em noo; and 'ark At t' guinea-fowls in t' giarth: 'Coom back! Coom Back! Y' From dawn while either dark. Weel, wark mun still be dean, sun still shiues warm; By, but it's hard this Maay^ When t' warry hodds and beasts aboot oor farm Cries t' woods I darsen't saay.

A pomniunity Circus. The most appealing eommunity enterprise 1 liave ever encountered the Gainesville Community Circus, iq a full-fledged, three-ring, big top show created and owned by the people of a small Texas city. It tours the road like any professional show but nobody gets any pay. Everybody does his part for the fun of it." All the profits go to more equipment to make the circus bigger and better. And its success proves that a cotamunity can do almost anything if an idea captures its imagmation and the town sets itg mind to carrying it out. ' iSVebb LWaldron.