THE SOUND OF CHEERING

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 8, 2 October 1937, Page 15

THE SOUND OF CHEERING

I bave always liked tbe sound of huinan beinga cbeering, says "Y.Y." in tbe New Statesman. I like to hear cheers even ra the wireless. There are some people wbo turn off tbe wireless at the end of an opera wben tbe audience breaks out into rapturous applau^o: for me this uninteJlectual uproar is one of the best parts of the performance, It is difficult to say whcn^ human beings are happiest, but J am sure tbat oue of the oecasions is wben tbey are cbeering and listenjng to otber people 's cheerg, Clieering is the pcrfect rejuvenator. At tbe last Aasociation matcb tbat I

saw, tbe spectators cbeered continuously, Every time tbe ball was kicked, tbey cbeered like men. Wbat tbey were choering about balf tbe time I did not know, and I do not think tbey knew, but tbey cbeered. And *1 am sure every one of them went bome feeling as flt as if be bad been treated by an osteqpath. What poisons tbey bad shaken. from tbeir system s witb tbeir shoutsl Wbat enlivening exercise they had given to the muscles of their lungs aud liearts! How their brains, slagnant an hour before, hatl a-„titei:ed to bappy life'