"Mr Punch's" Warning.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 203, 31 August 1904, Page 4

"Mr Punch's" Warning.

0 HOW SPOUT ABSORBS WHAT THE EMPIRE NEEDS.

Wasted labour, misdirected enthusiasm, and the Empire's need form the subject of the epilogue to the 126 th volumo of "Punch," which takes the S.iapc of a conversation between Mr Punch and a famouß cricketer.

The cricketer details the labours which mate up his day. "To-day 1 made 120 not out," he sayß, "was interviewed twice, photographed three times, and wrote half & column for the 'Dally Demagogue.' I'm off now to get a bit of dinner, and before I turn in I've got to finish an article on ' The Economics of Sport for the Statist.' If I get to bed by twelve I shall consider myself lucky." "That's the pity of it," observes Mr Punch. "Energy and ability lavished on gomes, when the country is frying out for efficiency and intelligence in commerce and the army and navy.

"Has it never occurred to you that you are overdoing all these athletics," that it is time to grow up and be rather more serious ? Cricket is a splendid thing ; football is a splendid thing ; but no healthy, line Voung fellow like you ought to spend the whole summer in knocking a solid boll tall about and the whole winter in kicking a hollow one. That, is only a small Part of life, and you are making it the whole. "Is there no Empire to expand, no country to be defended •?, Are we not menaced at every turn by clever young Americans and ploidding young Germans ? Against their quickness and thoroughness are we to offer no resistance but fine averages ?"

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