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NZ Truth, Issue 142, 7 March 1908, Page 5

The worst form of jim-jams is to be chased by a horde of green-eyed snakes wearing celluloid collars. Before the wiles of a pretty girl a man .first loses his head, then his heart, and winds up by losing his liberty. The seeds of sciatica and rheumatism are usually set m man and maid during courtship. They will go canoodling m- damp parks and paddocks. (' It is remarkable what ingenuity is shown by persons named Smith and Brown to escape from the extreme commonness of the family Moniker. Percy Russell Scott Brown left his biko at the door of the Wellington V.M.C.A. rooms, and had it stolen by an ocean seaman named Thomas Kelly. (Singular how bikes come to grief at the V.M.C.A. !') Plain '"Brown" aaquires dignity and sonorousness when placed m conjunction with "Percy Russell Scott." In fact one almost loses sight of the fact that Percy's name is Brown. Kelly got twenty-one days', which is, of course, beside the question