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Cleanings

3 Shall Women Smoke J

Shall women smoke ? Why should she not, if she is minded to ? Why shouldn’t woman do the things that lordly’ man may do? He makes her stand on cable-cars, a-cling-ing to a strap, E'en though she step upon bis feet, or tumble in his lap.

She’s entered into politics ; she practices at law ; She’s taken up the surgeon’s work with lancet and with saw. Some of them play at football—so we’re told ; and there are some Who on their safety bicycles like Boreas do hum.

Man makes her do a thousand things that once were his to do. If she assumes his duties, pray why not his pleasures too ? She wears his collars, and her clothes arc cut quite as bis are : If she be mannish in her dress, why not have her cigar ?

And furthermore, man has encroached on woman’s sphere of late. He’s taken on dress-makiug at a truly wondrous rate ; And some men’s clubs for gossip beat the Dorcas out of sight. To thus encroach, and yield no jot, most surely is not right.

Of course ’twill not be pleasant, just at first, to sec Minette, Like any dudeling, puffing on a horrid cigarette; Nor will the sight be of a strongly pleasureable type When first we see our daughters lighting up their evening pipe. But men get used to all things, be it soon or be it late, And this, like other problems, must fulfil its settled fate. ’Tis very safe to prophesy the time is not so far When women all will smoke who live beyond their first cigar. Harper.

Dickens in Camp.

When James Detuarr, who has just published ‘Adventures in Australia,’ was on a cattle station on the Devil’s River, in North Gippsland, the only book they bad for months (it. is many years ago) was * Watt’s Logic : or tbs Right Llso of Reason.’ This was more than the men could stand, though it was the only book in the country, but. a little later on they had a picturesque Australian edition of Dickens in the camp. Says 'the writer : ‘ I tried the bead station, but Mr B , our employer, never seemed to have a book. What, hooks he haff were generally borrowed from some distant station. But at last one of the men rode in from the head station, and, with a joyful countenance, banded to me Charles Dickens’s ‘Nicholas Nickleby,’ all the more welcome because I had never read it.

* Now we wore happy, and that night I commenced reading it to mv companions, who were delighted ; but to show that there was much innate good nature in these fellows, they advised that the reading should be stopped until the men of two or three stations near us had been invited to come and hear it read. So the next day the news of our good fortune was passed round to the stations, and the mon invited to come, and readily did they respond to the invitation.

‘ The book, as a matter of course, was always read at night, and the hut was full of attentive listeners. The nights were cold and frosty, but we always had a glorious log fire, and our only light to read by was the usual one, a piece of twisted rag stuck into a pint tin full of melted fat. It would have delighted the heart of a philanthropist to have seen how these fellows enjoyed the reading of this book. If I could have read till daylight they would not have tired.

‘ To see the close attention they gave to the reading, and to hear their remarks at the finish, was interesting and amusing also. To them it was a real life history, and their sympathies

were all with the honest and good characters in the story. ‘ Two of the listeners came from a station several miles distant, but as all could not leave their stations, I agreed to read it a second time in order that those who were bv necessity prevented from hearing it the first time might experience the same enjoyment. ‘ After the reading, there was always an animated conversation on the incidents and characters before the men would disperse to their several homes.’

Queer Military Order.

The chaplain of one of tho regiments of the American Army, the Rev J. H. M’Neilly, remembers the first battle order that he ever heard. And well he may—it was so peculiar. It was in the fall of 1861, during the Civil War at Fort Donelson, where there were only some half a dozen companies fortifying and drilling. The new chaplain was messing with the senior captain. In those days, he says, the men had not yet given up all home habits. They wore white shirts and underclothes, and every night undressed and went to bed ‘ like folks.’ He says : One day it was rumoured that the gunboats were in the river below us, and were coming up. About midnight while all were sleeping soundly, the long roll began to beat in the company stationed on the river bank. At once there was a stir in the camp ; officers were calling the men to fall in, and there was much hurrying to and fro. Captain Beaumont was always careful about his dress when on duty, and even now be did not neglect his toilet. Quickly he put on his uniform, buckled on his sword, and stepped our, of his tent ta take command of bis company.

But his men bad not been so thoughtful. They sprang up and grasped their muskets, and formed in line in front of their tents; but every man of them bad forgotten to put on bis trousers, and there they stood in the starlight, in their night clothes, like ‘ sheeted ghosts,’ trembling with cold and excitement.

As the captain and I stepped out, and his eye glanced along the line, his sense of propriety got the better of his military ardour, and he shouted out his first command :

‘ Confound your foolish souls, go and put on your breeches 1’

The situation dawned on the men, and with shouts of laughter they prepared for battle by putting on those needful articles of apparol. After all, it was a false alarm, and they were soon sent to bed again.

Smart Telegraphing.

The Dunedin Star of Thursday has the following : —‘ A smart piece of telegraphy was recorded by the local telegraph officials yesterday. A cablegram to London was despatched at 2.30 p.m., and the reply received in Dunedin at 8.45 p.m. As a matter of fact, the reply was handed in at the London office at 9.7 a.m. (English time), but allowing for the difference of time between the two places, which is eleven hours and forty minutes, the actual time occupied in transmitting tho message from London to Dunedin was one hour and jifty-five minutes. This is annilating space with a vengeance, and is, we imagine, the best telegraphic feat over such a distance of wire ever performed in connection with this Colony's work. The message would have been transmitted over these circuits without break—London to Teheran, Teheran to Bombay, Bombay to Singapore, Singapore to Banjowangie, Banjowangie to Adelaide) Adelaide to La Perouse, La Perouse to Cable Bay, Cable Bay to Dunedin, about 13,500 miles.’ ******

A female hairdresser has started business in Tokomainro (Milton).

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Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 746, 12 June 1894, Page 2

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Cleanings Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 746, 12 June 1894, Page 2

Cleanings Kaikoura Star, Volume XIV, Issue 746, 12 June 1894, Page 2

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