MADAME PRESIDENT-AT LARGE.

White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 273, 18 March 1918, Page 10

MADAME PRESIDENT-AT LARGE.

A CONVENTION EPISODE

About 7.30 p.m. on Wednesday our Dominion Pres’dent and our Editor started out for the Reception at the Lyceum. Our hostess carefully explained the route, while the younger members of the household assured us that 20 minutes was ample tim* to cover the distance. We sallied f »r.h, the night was chirk, and Timaru suburbs not too brilliantly l’ghted. College Road was crossed, and Harper Street entered. But 0I1! the* way seemed long. We peered at the* street names on the lamp posts, and then at last we left North Street, and were completely lost. Then at almost every corner one or other of us accosted a late pedestrian with the query, “Please can you direct us o the Lyceum?” We grew weary of the refrain long before we reached <nir destination. But a* hist, by carefully following all directions, we came to two picture theatres opposite each other; we had been told the* Lyceum was an ex-p ; c:urc* theatre opposite a present picture theatre, and so we thought here must be our goal. However, to “mak seccar,” Madame President asked the “man in blue.” who told us we had at last “arrived.” And after all our wanderings, our Picsident was or.lv five minutes late.