Light on a Dark Subject.

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 1 May 1914, Page 2

Light on a Dark Subject.

The suburbanite is a man who spends his day-time in the City and his salary in the country. He usually is old enough to know better. The suburbanite is a patron saint of railway companies, perambulator manufacturers, lawn-mower grinders, and gTowers of seed—grass, garden, and canary. He lunches at Brown's, dines at home, and eats his breakfast on the road to the station. He knows his way home in the dark, but probably would fail to recognise his house if he were to run up against it in the daytime. The suburbanite usually has a wife, four children, the innueri7.a, and no permanent cook. He sleeps ail day Sunday dreaming of trial-balances. Week days the baliies are still slumbering when he leaves for the City in the morning, and a bod when he reaches home at night. Offspring of suburbanites know only by hearsay that they have a father. .'Vll suburban jokes on record were written by cave-dwellers. Suburban life is no joke to the suburbanite. Besides, he has no time for foolishness—the 8.15 local to town waits for no man.