BLISSFUL IGNORANCE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 21 November 1913, Page 4

BLISSFUL IGNORANCE.

U there anybody in the Dominion who by this time does not know about the strike? It is not impossible. A writer in the New Zealand Herald tells of an old lady who stood at a busy corner the other day waiting for a car when mo cars were running, and when the situation was explained to-her, said she was "glad to see that so many men had managed to get horses to ride -about on, tnoiigh why they used thicfc' sticks instead of riding whips she couldn't make out." When she was told of the waterside strike/ she wanted,to know what it was about, *'and if she received an intelligible explanation is wiser than most people." The writer tells a story of an old settler from the Far North who, when peace had been declared in 1902, was surprised to hear that there had been a war. -' But this was nothing to the Frenchman who lived near Paris in the time of the Revolution and'"through the Napoleonic period, and yet neveY"b.eard of either the Revolution 6r of Napoleon. Questions put,to young Recruits",m England and -France show m some cases a complete ignorance of facts and occurrences that have daily prominence in .the press.. Many people are no more conscious, of the movements and developments . going on around them than , the albatross, sleeping on the water, with its head under its wing, is conscious of,the storm blowing about it.