PASSING SHOW

Waikato Times, Volume 128, Issue 21365, 8 March 1941, Page 11

PASSING SHOW

(By “Free Lance”)

“ Brr, it iss cold tonight, mein Fuehrer. Do you from cold feet ever suffer ? ” “ Ach, yes, Hermann. Mussolini’s ! ” * * * * Nazi overlords seem determined to ■ hange the laws of supply and demand to laws of demand and supply. Advice to motorists : Adherence to the Golden Rule would prevent highways being mistaken for “ myways.” “ Please do not squeeze me until I am yours,” runs a notice attached to fruit exposed for sale in a Wellington shop. Respectable Youth, 17, wishes to meet nice Girl. Non-danger. Enclose Photo if possible—Southern advt. Too respectable ? Tramps make their clothes last an incredible time, says an institution official. Of course. A rolling stone gathers no moths. The absorbing pastime of ringing the bottle, to which we have been introduced, suggests to us the solution of the problem of determining the intoxicated driver. When a motorist is arrested let him be compelled to take his empties t© the police station, which should have a stock of curtain rings, sticks and' string. If he can ring the bottle he is only mildly under the influence, and if he can lay it down and make it stand up again by means of the ring, he is as sober as you or I. On Christmas morning the children of he house were spreading out the toys that v ather Christmas had put in their stockngs. “ Father,” said Willie. “ I wish I had got * dictionary in my stocking as well as these toys.” “ Why, what do you want that for? ” “ So that I could find out the meaning of the words I heard Father Christmas say, when he stepped on the tacks I spread on the carpet last night.” * * • • Three managers of chicken farms in Germany were being questioned by a Gestapo man. “ What do you feed your chickens ? ” the first was asked. “ Com.” “ You’re under arrest! We use corn to teed the people.” The second overheard this conversation, nd tried to play safe. “ What do you feed your chickens ? ” came the question. “ Com husks.” “ You’re under arrest. We use the husks to make cloth. And you ? ” he asked, turning to the third man. “ I give my chickens the money and tell them to go and buy their own food.” If there is one person who really is misunderstood it is the shy person. Shy people are so often thought rude, unfeeling, selfish. Actually they are usually intensely unselfish, because they have a much greater opinion of oiher people than of themselves. Their shyness is due. in most cases to a sort of supersensitiveness which makes any rebuff intensely painful. Equally this sensitiveness can be the sign of a great depth of emotion and appreciation. So do, please, let us be gentH with the shy person. Let us take the trouble to cultivate his or her friendship. It will be more loyal, very often, than that of a self-assertive nature.—Leonora Eyles.