DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 236, 24 December 1927, Page 19

DR. FRANK CRANE’S DAILY EDITORIAL

HAIR WORTH £2,500 (Copyright, 1927.) AN American millionaire is said to have offered £2,500 for a lock of Beethoven’s hair, now in the possession of a singing society in Hungary. This gives us a helpful thought and we hope will be a remunerative sugi gestion. No man can tell when he is going to be famous or how famous he will ; be. It behoves him, therefore, to save all his personal belongings, as they ! may be of financial assistance to his heirs. When he goes to the barber shop he ought to have his extra hair, that j has been cut off, preserved. This accumulation of surplus hair 100 years i after he is gone may be worth considerable money, if he happens to acquire j fame. His wife also should carefully look after his old clothes and not give them away, but put them in the safe deposit vault, so that in after years his great, i great grandchildren may benefit from them. Some -fool millionaire with more money than he knows what to do with | may want to buy a set of these clothes so that he can go around in the clothes | of the famous Mr. Thingumbob. i The house is full now of junk nobody wants, but think to whom it belongs! We sign many letters every day carelessly and dispense our autographs without any notion of what they are worth. Some day a man may come along ■ and offer £2,500 for our well-nigh illegible writing. We once knew a man who took music lessons from one who lived on the same street where Johann Sebastian Bach lived. He never failed to remind i us of his solitary claim to fame. We should read and take to heart the words of Robert Browning, who I said: “Ah, did you once see Shelley plain And did he stop and speak to you. And did you speak to him again. How Strange it seems, and new!” Perhaps somebody some day will go around bragging that they spoke to us one time or picked up a pair of old shoes in our backyard. Who knows?