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NZ Truth, Issue 74, 17 November 1906, Page 6

Good nature,' plenty of air and sunlight, perfect sewerage, play-grounds and gardens are better than threats of Hell for bettering the condition of mankind. . .

Morbid minded* people- find a special attraction m the Victorian Court at the: Exhibition m the Kelly gang relics. Young varmints who are voracious readers of the penny dreadfuls, stand and gaze at them with awe.

The latest, and one of the best ever, advertising schemes is that now being promulgated by Mr Leslie, an Australian expert. It is a collapsible free lunch table, which has a handsome "sideboard mirror" back, m which advertisements can be inserted at will and changed as often as desired. A specimen m the . Duke of Edinburgh Hotel has created considerable interest. Mr Leslie is protecting the idea m N.7j., as already the usual blackmailing timber-tosser who did not get the job of making the tables and back-grounds, is endeavoring to undercut and forestall the inventor of the plan.

This Latin humbug applied to other kinds of bugs, to flowers, animals, | etc., by a lot of dinky professors jWith wild hair, dead-eel eyes and emetical breath, should be about meeting its finish, Fancy, for instance, callins a pretty butterfly a lepidoptera and the branch of science lepidopter- ; ology ! I asked a pretty big scholar, ia clergyman, the other clay if he was a Ippidonterologist, and he thought I j was swearing at him. J