Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News.
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1909. WHO’S WHO?
This above all—to thine own self be true , And xt must follow as the night the day Thou canst not then be false to any man ' Shakespeare.
Au ! that’s the question : “ Who’s Who ? Our romancing contemporary the “ Mail” has excited the curiosity of many young
men in Te Aroha about a certain young
lady. It was only natural that young fellows should stand to attention on such matters. But “ Why is this thus as Artemus Ward would ask. It was thus : the “ Mail,” in one of those senseless
articles which it boasts it can write iu “ three minutes ” with the agility of a
literary acrobat, alluded a short time ago to “an amiable but inexperienced young lady in Auckland.” What particular young lady our contemporary had on the brain people could not imagine. That there really was a young lady somewhere nobody who kno>v« t Jho “ Mail ” doubted, because it never, w<di hardly ever, romances or tells fibs Those who doubt that can ask the “ Mail.” At that particular moment of this not quite Hucventful history our contemporary was deep in thought about that amiable but inexperienced young Jady in Auckland. The “ Mail ” had been
called over tho coals by the News about certain liquor traffic matters, and be naturally felt sore over it. He gets verytouchy indeed about that, and as cross and defamatory as a Eillingsgate fish woman We can imagine our disconcerted contemporary, smarting under his castigation, sitting with elbows on his knees and his head in his hands, thinking of “ an amiable but inexperienced young lady in Auckland,” We imagine him soliloquising thus ■: “ She did it; yes, she did it. Only fancy 1 castigated by a woman and a young one at that. 1 can’t go for her, except with a back handed slap about her being “ineyperi- I eneed,” but I’ll go hot and strong for the I proprietor. I have called him a 1< an | goose, a hypocrite, and all sorts of j things, now I must invent a stronger , vocabulary ” I But, to return to the “ amiable but inexperienced young lady.” Everybody knows that the •‘Mail” never, ahem ■{
well hardly ever manufactures or pro phcbicallv imagines news. Shades of Geo r ge Washiugfcon ! The “ Mail” prides itself on saying the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, and leaves it to the untruthful little NEws to do the O'her thing. But here we find this local George Washington informing its readers, as if it positively were su~e of its facts, that “ an amicable but inexperienced young ladv in Auckland ” was lashing him in print at the dictation of someone behind the scenes. That Te Arohaian George Washington affected to know for a fact wh it could only be the merest surmise.
Of course there was an “ amicable ” young lady in Auckland, but whether she wrote the article that made the ‘ Mail ” so cross, and whether she were “ inexperienced ” could only be a surmise and not accurate knowledge. Our contemporary, who “ never, never told a lie,” and turns up the whites of his eyes and thanks his lucky stars he is not like the nnughty little News, will now have an opportunity of judging of the correctness or otherwise of his estimate of the “ inexperienced young lady.” By implication he threw down the gauntlet to her and challenged her experience. It was a little ungentlemanly, but our contemporary never puts too fine a point upon it. We must make allowance. Our “ amiable and inexperienced young lady,” in the person of Miss M. Lavington Glyde, having asked to be allowed to go into office permanently, assumes office to-day at Te Aroha, and we venture to say that the people here and in adjacent districts will find her to be an acquisition. Miss Glyde is a lady of mark and strength of character, who makes her influence felt for good whenever she goes. She wields the pen of a jfftly writer, while it exposes mere sham, humbug, and meaningless conventionality, ever defends the weak and defenceless, the right and tiue. Her pen is never dipped into the gall of bitterness, but into the milk of human kindness, and her life’s object is to do good to all. Miss Glyde, far from being “ inexperienced,” is very experienced. With great credit to herself and benefit to the community she wrote for and assisted in editing “ Defence,” and thus helped to infuse a spirit of patriotism, courage, and alertness into men who may be called upon to defend our hearths and homes. The young lady was also musical and dramatic critic Qn the “ Graphic ” staff, and she has ljad some Australasian journalistic experience.
In connection with the Choral Society and all that makes for the development of Te Aroha and for the best interests of women and young persons, Miss Glyde will do good sen.ee. We respectfully commend Miss Glyde to our readers and generally to all residents here. That young lady has come to Te Aroha to bold an important position and cast in her lot with the people, inspired solely with an unselfish desire and determination to do good to all and injury to none. It will be her earnest and constant endeavour to co-operate to make the News a progressive journal and keep it up to date by championing the lights of the people, and ever fighting bravely ‘ * For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And th,e good that sve can do.”
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Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4504, 16 December 1909, Page 2
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930Te Aroha AND Ohinemuri News. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1909. WHO’S WHO? Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4504, 16 December 1909, Page 2
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