SCOTCH! HOTCH! POTCH!

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 27, 17 September 1920, Page 10

SCOTCH! HOTCH! POTCH!

McTaggart : "Vou opponents o' Seotland are a' the same, speakin' a'ooot our brogue and findin' fault wi' the glass — the "drinkin' habit" ye ea' it. I teli you it's no habit at a' : it'c a gift!" The Catholic Bishops and that pugnacious stalwait of Presbyterianism, the Rev. Lsaac Jolly are insinuating that they will do things should the proposed marriage legisiation Le enacted. Marriage i3 doubtless an ordination of the CreatoT ; bnt equally a civil contract. This contract made between men and women of a civilised state is sufficiently valid in tlie absence oi priest or parson. It- should be pa tent to the most simple minded that a marriage vow solemnised before a ^.egistrar, and kepi to the death, will please the Deity jnst a.s well as one presided over hy the moderator or his holiness the Pope. We say give religious liberty to the f ull , 1) u t don't allow ecclesiastics to dictate the policy of the State. Mon ye ken it wis grand to see the Sohthlaud fitba' bovs win hame again. In faet it wis glorious. May they have manv raore like triumphs. We are all proud o them. Some o, the local iolk itave been criticism tire combmation of the Red's bnt a.s Sandy McGraw says '"Ihe piooi o the puddin' is the eatin o' it!" Ihe Southland team was the better oue ony way ye like to tak it! As an example of wornan s wit, Chauncey Depew citcs the follpwing : A man oue© found that his wife had bought a fesv puffs of 1'aise iuiir. '1 his dispieased ■ hioi. So oue dny te h u'm the liail om.sioe her I'ooni. and. juff as the lady was adjustin ; the fa!>e puffs. Iie darted m upon her. "Mir.y." he said reproachfully, ' • VV'h \ do you put that hair oi' another woman upon youi hcad John, i et.rted Mary. with a glanee at her husr bsnd's sboes "Why do you pat the skiu^ of a»e.th.er calf opou yotir feet?" It is i epo rt e 1 ffoni Afoscow that islnver Pasha, at the request of Lenin and Trotky, lias been appAnted Commander-iii-CFiief of the Bolshevik forces which are mareburn ou India. Ihe Bolshevik forces in fh.e ( aucasus. I'ersia, Afghanistan and Turkf-stan have been placed nnder his ■ com tinui d. Knver Pasha recently sojwirned at the Bolshevik headquarters in Smohmsk ■ i t ! ? Trotsky. French dipionjatie cireles consicKr that the principal aim of th.e inanocuvre is to compel Britafn to niake peace with Russia quickiy. Mnvet' Pasha is, ta.-aud-away, the roost uTiserupulous and amhitious mischief maker in the Mahommedan world. Possesscd of gr. it ability and ihe Xapoleonic toueh fired bv a burning hativd of England "Ihe Groper" opines that this "disUirter of ihe peace' ' will e reata troul.de enough beCore he goes hence. It is questionable if one-tenth of our citi/ens have any idea oi the extensiveners of the work of leclaniation carried o'ut by the Prison Authorities aeross the Waihopai. Tak.e a vvalk to ihe wharf thence by the embankment running north, recrossing at the br;dge at i'oot of Victoria Aveniie — vou'll ge't- son:,e idea of what is being done aeross the water Scrgeant McDuff had a squad of Highland recruits on the ritle range. At 100 yards they all niissed the target. He tried thein at 300 and 200 yards bnt with little success. Exasperated, he cried, "Tara you! Tam you ! .3 juad , Attention ! Fix ivayonets ! Chargc ! ' ' Little Johnnie. aged six, had been to rhurch and liad displayed more than the u-sual juvenile attention to the sermon, in which. the origin of Eve had been cfcvelt on at some length. Cn.his return home, there being compauy to dinner, he displayed more than -usual attention to the good thir.'s. on ihe table. Some time afterwards, Johnnie was missed. When his mother discovered him he was sitting ou a stool in a corner holdlng iiis side, his face bearing marks oi' sorrow and distress. "What on earth is the matter?" asked his mother in alarm. "Oh, marhma, Im' afraid I m going to have a wife.