THE MATURE MAN.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1945, 27 February 1919, Page 3

THE MATURE MAN.

.Brne-i Darling, (he ‘‘A'alnra .Mon.’' Weill nioslly naked, snuggled (lose lo lhe Knrlli Afoilier, subsisted mostly on frnil and mils —and died of “ihi” in Fiji. Darling was an American man. and n doctor by profession, and \\ iieii he was he was 1 limed down by Die “nieds." as a boneless ei’ii.-nunilive. lie did Die

iiature :u-i —im-imlmg ibo eon.--.nmp-f ion of mils, wasiiiiiwolC 11 In!, ,-uid ivhn-HOi! wild :i punch like ihe kick of u mule, and longs dial bud forgotten riial limy bud been pneu-monic--three limes. Thai’s bow Ibe yum goo-,, anyway. Darling had plenty ol money, and .fuck London, (he novelist, who was a. pal of his, said ho was as strong as a gorilla, mostly, one supposes, heeaiise he went naked and aie mils. lie travelled largely and hared bis (dies! to the world, bis long hair and whiskers more luxurious even than Alalenlin Fleming's—lion ling in the bree/.os of China, Japan, Java, Europe, and other places, London look him on llm.l ‘‘.Smirk” cruise, and if a weird figure like Darling wouldn’l spur Ihe inmginalion, whal would.’ lie pud; up land in ihe mould a ins ol Tabiri, and lived Ihe monkey life, and when he wasn’l climbing frees or earing bananas he wrote quite as well as a daily paper junior reporter, his language being free and picturesque. He (alked with scorn of “the beef-enters and bottle jngglers,” who didn't go about naked. Darling never cooked anything. Ate it raw, and like our old friend Lionel Terry never could abide anything that wasn’t growip in the couufry where lie ale, it. If Darling was right wo. all ought to go “Snarl-:” naked. If ho was correct we all ought to cat nuts, and Nature was guile wrong lo give us mcaiteariiig teeth. Nature, as a mailer of aclualiiy, collected the naked man with the nut-eating penchant per “tin” —and hy heaven Nature knows. —A uckhind Observer.