A New and Amusing Hobby

Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 29 May 1914, Page 2

A New and Amusing Hobby

A new hobby which has the threefold merit of being interesting, amusing, and inexpensive, is to collect "the slips of the "scribes." An album, each page divided into two columns, headed respectively "What was written" and " What should have been written," is all that is needed. Here are some specimen examples. The sweet damsel who walks through t.he pages of a love story has, as one of,her many, charms, "a tiny little foot !"• The scribe would never have written "a large big hand.," but why not ? One is as bad, or as good, as the other. Again, we are bidden to weep because, with the loss of his fortune. Sir Hugh's friends "grow less and loss." ' In girth V, Of course we know that "fewer" is meant, but why not say so ? Another scribe — a lady, this one—speaks of a certain task as becoming more and more impossible ! That, as Euclid would say, is absurd. If it is impossible —well, it is ! In a" daily paper it was stated that a certain public man "belonged to the Carlton Club." Why "belonged ?"' When did the Carlton buy him, and for -how much ? At a certain meeting, quite recently, the speaker, referring to the Balkan War, "declared that "diplomacy must exert itself to secure a permanent and lasting peace." Well, if it is permanent it is certainly lasting, and *if lasting then it must be permanent ! "