CRITICAL AMENITIES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 April 1939, Page 5

CRITICAL AMENITIES

(To the Editor.) Sir, —My sincere apologies to “Procrastination” for substituting the word “wall” for “hill,” and I trust I did not injure his feelings too much. Anyhow, it’s an old quotation, that “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” Re having the confidence of “the men who get things down.” I sincerely hope “Procrastination” is right. But the main point is, that they have my confidence. I would not mind being embalmed, but I am afraid the genuine process has become lost, to us. I would not mind being cremated, in preference to present day methods of burial (though I am not, as “Procrastination” seems to think, definitely against the present methods. The difference in method is debatable, of course, and each and every individual has the right to express his own ideas. Personally, my own honest belief is in favour of cremation. Also, there was no slur cast on any cemetery (especially our local one) which is a credit to the custodian and his assistants. As to poets (rough and ready or otherwise) being averse to baths, I will let you into a secret. Whenever I wish to answer a letter about holes, hills, or walls, etc, I invariably do so in the bath. It is really surprising the wonderful effect the water has in “toning up the old thinkbox” (also the soap). And, by the way, that’s how the error occurred re “wall and hill,” so don’t blame me, but the soap in my eye. And now, “Procrastination,” I will put you on “a sure winner.” Just wait till “that hole in the hili’’ is an accomplished fact. Then have a bath. Use plenty of soap, and you’ll find you vzill be able to slip right through from one end to —• other, without any assistance from “Mick" or “Bob” (also try to get Adam Hamilton to accompany you. but don’t put “to much soap" on him. as I think he will slip through quite easily without any). In conclusion, if I should pass away before hearing from you again, try to be on the spot, irrespective as to whether I am buried, burned, or embalmed. I am, etc, JIM FOGAN. Mnslerton. April 22.