FROM THE WATCH TOWER

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 411, 20 July 1928, Page 8

FROM THE WATCH TOWER

By

“THE LOOK-OUT MAN.”

SILHOUETTES OF THE SESSION No. 6: Mr. H. S. Kyle Never uses guile. “The frank and winning smile Is more my happy style .*•’ VNIiOTT LED WRATH No more beer for Heeney until after July 26. So states a cable from America. Coinciding with, this message comes the information that the New Zealander has joined the ranks of the Mustard Club. Naturally, Heeney would rather he hot stuff than feel bottled up. A MUSICAL THIEF A Chinaman named Sing On was before the Magistrate’s Court at Palmerston North yesterday for stealing a gramophone. Evidently he found it difficult to live up to his name without mechanical aid. DOUBTFUL, TASTE Who said the age of chivalry had faded? A young Grecian woman who expressed a desire to kiss the hand of Venizelos demonstrated her affection by sinking her teeth into the old gentleman’s flesh. Women the world over are having a say in men’s affairs, but when it reaches the stage of cannibalism, isn’t this carrying women’s rights a little too far? IRELAND AFP SOVIET No Irishman has ever been president of Nicaragua, but still it is interesting to see that one Murphy has been elected to the Presidium of the Soviet Central Executive. It will be recalled, too, that one of Napoleon’s trusted underlings was Marshal Maemahon. This catholicity of Irish feeling allows De Valej-a to strive for political supremacy in the Free State against the “home-brew” politicians. CABARETS CONDEMNED Mr. J. Guiniven, of the Takapuna Borough Council, does not like cabarets. He would sweep them from the face of the earth and trample cabarabian-knights underfoot. Discussing the new Temple of Jazz which is to be opened for those who dance the heebie-jeebies in Takapuna, he prophesied that it would be a magnet to attract cartloads of bad characters to the district. Really, that seems a bit strong . . . and besides, Mr. Guiniven should know that the practice of driving to cabarets in carts died 20 years ago.

A CORRECTION Shades of Lucknow pipers! Mr. A. G. Lunn has had the temerity to class bagpipes among such luxuries as cocktails and diamond rings. Don’t draw the sword, Scotland. Let us explain to all Scotsmen that Mr. Lunn was merely having a joke and that he has obviously no ear for music. It may be stated that a set of bagpipes is of decided value in any of the following circumstances: —(1) To hasten the departure of undesirable neighbours. (2) To welcome Sir Harry Lauder on his next final farewell tour. (3) To afford relief for the desolation of a Dunedin citizen who has broken his wrist in trying to get his penny back from one of • those “puneh-the-bali” machines.