FROM THE WATCH TOWER

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 248, 10 January 1928, Page 8

FROM THE WATCH TOWER

By “THE LOOK-OUT MAN” AUCKLAND UNVISITED No. 1. —Mangere and Onehunga A visitor from England contributes these verses. He wonders if the Maor place-name “Mangere” has any connection with the Latin verb meaning “t( eat”: There's a place called Mangere Over by the Tasman Sea. Do the people there, I wonder, Gorge until they burst asunder? Will somebody please inform us, Are their appetites enormous? Do they eat all hinds of dishes. Bread and meat and fowls and fishes, Seasoned from a varied cruet, Jam and porridge, 'cheese and fruit? When new grub comes, do they try it> Have they such a varied diet? Or are they restricted to One plain dish, or just a few? Anyhow, there must be profit Selling food for them to scoff it, For the fruiterer and baker, (Also for the undertaker). For the butcher and the grocer, Not to mention the fishmonger: And I feel a little sorry That the men of Onehunga Cannot come a little closer, Cannot share the feast, or soiree. Breakfast, supper, dinner, tea, With the men of Mangere. I imagine that the latter Keep on growing grossly fatter, While their friends across the way Get up thinner every day; And I think it most unjust That the folk of M ana ere so Calmly let their neighbours be so. I sincerely hope they bust. —A. F. E. EAT WHAT YOU LIKE Spoken like a man, brother! Dr. S. G. More, of Huddersfield, England, ridicules the dietetic “killjoys” who would destroy the healthy human appetite by insisting upon vitamines, calories and the like. He says the sensible man will turn a deaf ear to them, and instinctively turn to the foods he fancies when there is a nip in the air. Apart from faddists, experienced physicians do not fix rigid diets, excepting in certain diseases n which some foods are gravely detrimental. Eat what you like, but do not overeat. It is as true to-day as when Shakespeare enunciated it that “what is one man’s meat is another man’s poison.” No” hard and fast diet can be prescribed for a community. PROFESSOR VORONOFF ON REJUVENATION Professor Voronoff is to the fore again, pinning his faith to monkey glands to accomplish the rejuvenation of human beings. Even if possible is it really desirable? Imagine the probable result of the professor’s operation upon a man of 70 years or more who has passed through the varied experiences—good and bad — which comprise life. He is rejuvenated, 60 years are suddenly knocked off his age and once more he becomes a schoolboy. Poor chap, he will scarcely echo the sentimental, “Ah, happy years, once more who would not be a boy!” Another, perhaps worse, supposition occurs to the mind:—lf he is’ only rejuvenated to the attractive age of 30 or thereabouts and the Adonis flirts desperately with every pretty girl, will not the old lady want to use her finger-nails upon these same girls? The cases may be reversed—the wife being the rejuvenated one. Then will the old man sit helplessly in his easy-ehair, gnashing the poor remains of his teeth, while his life-partner in knee-length skirt and shingled head, fox-trots tirelessly night after night. And why should old age be regarded as such a bugbear? It is often very sweet and beautiful: “Days though short’ning still can shine.”

OPPOSING PROGRESS The attitude of certain sports bodies in Auckland in opposing the broadcasting of results from the ground by radio, because it injures attendances, is a complaint against progress. The trotting clubs, it appears, hold that the broadcast is a convenience to country bookmakers. Country enthusiasts of the sport are not considered. Broadcasting was not allowed at the spring meeting of the Auckland Club, and although permitted at the recent meeting, it was only after the club had experienced severe criticism and much discussion had passed. No great change in the past has been effected but that at the outset some body ot men or women has protested and predicted dire disaster. Yet somehow or other this little oP world of ours readjusts itself to the new state of affairs and progresses increasingly. When linotypes first came into use many printers asserted that these machines, each of which would do the work of a number of hand compositors, would deprive them of a livelihood. Nothing of the sort happened. There came to be a bigger demand for printed matter and for printers. It will be the same with regard to radio broadcast from the various sports fields, meaning more supporters in the long run. Further, the public, having had a taste of this convenience, will not do without it. Racing and sports bodies must realise that it has come to stay—and to he taken every reasonable advantage of.