IN PASSING

Waikato Times, Volume 121, Issue 20280, 24 August 1937, Page 5

IN PASSING

j Notes and Snapshots

Amazing the capacity some people have for amusing others. I was getting ready the other evening to go to what promised to be a very dull and starchy evening, when a young friend of mine appeared. She was going too, so we went together, and for a short time things went a little worse, if possible, than I had anticipated. Shortly, however, the wireless played an oldfashioned tune, and Berry began to rock with laughter. “ That reminds me of old Mr X,” she said;

"he- always sang that at the concert each year, but he sang It like this,” and she got up and gave a presentation of a typical old singer, which would have done credit to a professional. And from that we drifted to others, and everyone brightened and added their quota to the conversation, till the evening was a positive cauldron, bubbling over with excitement. Berry, of course, with her love of laughter, saw that It did not lag; for her it was easy, for her Interest In people made her amusement genuine; others laughed with her, and none was hurt. She has a tremendous courage that child, she smiles always, even on the days when her eyes are bright with unshed tears, and she is rewarded in hearing her chain of laughter clink pleasantly, and seeing it grow longer to enlighten such evenings as ours might have been.

Old proverb: “Never put off till to-morrow what you can do today.”

If you have a horse to ride, ride It out to-day. You will wish to-morrow, you chose at home to stay. For the horse went upward, you Jogged the other way, And softest chairs of formerly are mighty hard to-day.

If you have a bill to fix, settle It to-day, You will wish to-morrow you’d thought hut to delay. And on bacon, beans and coffee you’ll exist till Saturday, Because that bill Just mounted up, melted L.s.d. awayl • * • •

Tremendous fun It Is to go along to the school fancy dress balls and see all the children enjoying themselves, with folk dancing and games and a tremendous quantity of raspberry drink. The little ones who are at their first ball gazing wideeyed and wondering at all the costumes, are silent amid the hubbub of a hundred excited voices, and the older ones, whose fourth and fifth ball It is, watching everything usher the nomadic “ babies ” out of harm’s way. And the verve and obvious enjoyment they bring to the dances, and the piercing sweetness of fresh little voices, lend a gaiety that Is seldom found in grown-up haunts. I can always remember watching unbelievingly, a small boy consuming stolidly and silently, five large cups of raspberry, four large sandwiches, and three huge Junks of cream sponge, and then protesting vigorously that the supper session was too short 1 • • • •

I see where land buyers In Canterbury are said to be hesitant. Afraid of biting the dirt, perhaps?

And now the lady golfers are upon us again. Like mushrooms they have appeared on the links from all over the Islands, and now the Jargon will be. "But my DEAR, she had only two to go, and she took FIVE for the last hole-” “Of course. If she WILL use an Iron instead of a wood, what can she EXPECT to do?” And the conversation will be plentifully scattered with "birdies” and "dormles” and just one or two "ringers" for variety. Still, think of the fun the husbands and families will be having baching quietly at home, without the strain of a “might-toe-a-champion-yet’’ In their midst. Modern proverb: "She was only a golfer's daughter, but she knew her lie!”