LAUDER'S LATEST

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 335, 21 April 1928, Page 10

LAUDER'S LATEST

GIVES BOY A "AGE OF MIRACLES NOT PaSt , Sir Harry Lauder left w»t London, on Wednesday f or Jr* j amptou. where he embarked tor vica. Before he took his sea . T*? ! boai lraiu Sir Har r>- save a io- T( T old boy the surprise of his m e the Glasgow “Weekly Herald") The youngster, poorly dressed ** gazing longingly at a chocolate ? t hine in the station. s>j r Harrr was dressed in a long check or saw that look and said: “What's v. matter, my wee laddie?” “X wish I had a penny, s i r; . some chocolate.” replied the boy "Here’s a penny, and tell mother the age of miracles isn’t/' for that’s from Harr- Lauder.” Sir Harry’s response, produeinj .„ coin. The boy was dubious, pointing *. that there was no crooked stick, & that did not deter him from sliM,. the coin into the slot machine. “1 have hidden my stick,” SirH, explained to a Press representamt he entered the train, "because I » to escape attention. I am not tji the States until next May. "Last November was the -out niversary of my first invasion of £ States. Now. by request of audies" who saw me then. I am returning New York, and on Januarv COI going to give the identical rrograJr I gave 20 years ago." Sir Harry was interrupted b* woman who thrust a cardboard i/ into his hands. A second later ik she had gone. “Why. what’s this.” said Sir H*rr “a bomb or a bottle of Scotch?” ’ When he r"~ted it he found aVii, w horse shoe tied up with white heath* There was a third incident bety. the train steamed out. A friend proached a- 1 * if Sir Harryco^ lend him ’ * *v shillings. “Xo, I eanna,” was the reply, it you like you can pass a subsen tion box around for me. I need after a six months’ rest.”