Manawaru.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42791, 14 October 1905, Page 2

Manawaru.

OUR CORRESPONDENT’S TRIALS. Our Manawaru correspondent writes saying that he is in serious trouble, having been, taken to task for not describing the ladies’ dresses at the recent social at Te Aroha West, but worse indeed than this, is the task likened by him to the mythological episode of the difficulty of presentation by Paris, of the golden apple. Our correspondent is told that he should have decided who was entitled to be called the belle of the evening, buti admits that he, poor mortal, having fallen iu with a host of angels, found himself unequal to the extremely difficult task of deciding which was the most beautiful. In support of his statement that angels were present our correspondent quotes a poet:— Yet earth has Angels though their forms are moulded, But of such clay as fashions all below; Though harps are . wanting and bright pinions folded, We know them by the love-light on their brow. Mentioning a number of names, he gives up the task in bewilderment, and suggests that Messrs Forrest and Dent get up another social at which the belle should he chosen by the ballot of all who are present.