COMING ROUND THE BEND...

New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 726, 12 June 1953, Page 14

COMING ROUND THE BEND...

with

Denis

Glover

_"THERE’S something wrong with me: I seem to go through life accumulating more and more keys and less and less money. ‘| HE danger of giving a really intelligent girl a job in an office is that | she may acquire such a contempt for men that she is unlikely to make a | good wife. _\VHAT a lot of people will lavisn more care on a new car than they | would on a new baby. Where fools need foot-rules _ Real people climb to the top And estimate the height From the steeple. _\ HEN we were discussing sports and pastimes recently I had to confess that personally I like slamming | doors. ) |T was a very grim Scot who said to me, "There are some people in this | worrld you must welcome with closed | arms." | ) S it fair, I ask you, is it fair of a host not only to play you all his records, | but to do so on a machine which | changes them automatically, remorselessly, with not the slightest. consultation of your taste or intérest? THINK it not quite just of business men to complain of the standard of young people’s spelling when they are, with evident satisfaction, confronting us

daily with words like Frute, Ezy, Phit-U. NEVER differ violently with a *~ "woman: her tears are invincible to argument. "Now don’t get carried away at the i a ‘ ‘meeting dear. You always get carried away and become quite articulate." NE English tradition we have lost is that of giving lovely names to our inns and hotels. You can have funny ones, like The Penny Come Quick, or The Bug and Blanket, or The World Turned Upside Down. Or again something incredibly beautiful- The Rose Revived. But they tell me The Bag of Nails is really The Bacchanals, and The Goat and Compasses not a masonic headquarters but a cheerful slip of the tongue from God Encompasseth Us. SOME men are confoundedly right all the time, and some dismally wrong. But how good it is to find Bishop Berkeley's "We Irishmen think otherwise." And again, "I must publish to find if men elsewhere agree with Irishmen," N my travels I went into St. Dunstan’s~Church, and thought proper to record the following inscription: "To the memory -of Hobson Judkins, Esq., late of Cliffords Inn. The Honest Solicitor." The date was 1812.