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Kaipara and Waitemata Echo, 28 April 1921, Page 4

GENERAL ITEMS : * ON WHISKERS. The cust of separating oneself from , one's whiskers has increased along with the coat of cabbages, camisoles, chaffcutters, and a long list of other necessities of life as not lived by the ancient Britons; and already many hittierto reputable citizens are foar- ( eoinely brandishing razors where • razors were uever brandished before. But, after all, why worry over whiskers ? Let 'em grow. Let 'em shoot outwards in great stiff threads ; let 'em curl downwards in tremendous spiral columns till they clutch at the waistcoat button and twine round the watchchwn; lot 'em shoot here and there in a wild whirl of Bolshevistic entanglements, But if we really must cut 'em off, let's insist on the barber doing it by piece work. Is is fair and reasonable that Kaipara Flat Doherty, who comes in for an annual trim-up, should pay as little as Horace the Farakai Xnut, who faces the razor once a day and twice when Grerty is waiting for him at the Lyric corner ? And one thing appears to have been overlooked for centuries—that is the ' appalling waste that goes on,in the barbers' shops. Let us demand our hair back from the barber, and let us bear it to our wives that they nra^ stuff it into many cushions for use in those not far distant and bitter winters . when we shall have burned all our furniture on account of the high cost . of firewood, and t-hall have to recline on soft pillows because of the high cost of buying more chairs. Of course, we were expecting the barbers to join in the general madness. The Board of Trade recently increased the living wage. The haircut and shave were not the only necessaries to take a rise. Presently the workers will have found out that the new basic wage is not what is called a " living wage." Then ) there will be further increases and rises, and so the game goes on. MORALITY OF LAUGHTER. Carlyle asserts, with all the exaggeration of a great genius, that " The man who cannot laugh is not only fit \ for treasons, s^:atag»»ms and spoils, but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem." Without imbibing the whole of this as gO3pel truth, w<cannot fail to understand and appreciate the deep, underlying meaning of his words. Who has not ielt the infection of an honest man's hearty iaughter? And who. on the other hand, has not felt the irksomeness, , the dead weight, of individuals who ', never see a joke, who possess no E capacity for the .humorous sirle of life, In short who are morally in* 1 capable of producing a laugh ? Carlyle says that by the sound of a man's laughter (or no laughter) we can form a fair estimate of his iadivi- > dual character. Tliis is trup enough. Psychologists could, doubtless, eu t lighten us on the reason why one man ', laughs out, and another only sniggers t in his throat. We, with our empirical t knowledge, cannot reason about the ■ cause of two such totally dissimilar I operations, but we all have intuitions ' of our own, and whilst we cling . instinctively to a man who laughs : honestly, we invariably turn away • from those ice-bound personages who i have never been kuawn to do such a i thing. Recall the shallow mirth of , the' society flirt who sits talking and i laughing in the lighted ballroom ; the Mephistophelian " Ha! ha!" in Faust, the brassy chuckle, false and glitter- [ Ing, which emanates from the throats , of the fraudulent men about town, the ■ forger, the respeotable impostor j the jarring horse-laugh of the woman who lies in the mire of a lost selfrespect ; and then compare all these • with the sound of a good man's • healthful laughing, the buoyancy of a L clear conscience, and th 6 mirth of a 1 clean life. You will then have grasped > somewhat of Carlyle's meaning, and understand why " no man w&o has !• once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclairaably bad." i —^———— _ The writers against religion, whilst 1 they oppose every system, are wisely 1 careful not to sec op one of their own. j For children's Hacking Cough, Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. 1 New Zealand Farmers' Union Kaipara Sub-Provincial District BRANCHES AT: Helensville War^worth J^aukapakapa Wajmau^u Jfajpara Flat? Tauftoa itumeu Matakana Omaha Wellsford Port Albert Wharehine 3 Te Arai Marehemo Puhoi The objectß of the Union are to foster encourage and protect the industries of the farmers in New Zealand. Educational Lectures and Demonstrations on the varsous farming pursuits t arranged at intervals. To desiring to form a branch in theft district, kindly make application to the Organising Secretary L. L. BAILEY, 5 ■ Organising Secretary. i ' Box 26, Helensville.