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MEN AND MATTERS. C
Not Playing the .Came.
Mr. Yaughan
(Commissioner of Crown
Xands, South Australia) is : astounded by
SRrbat. he
describes
the "colossal impudence"
of the Secretary of the United
Labourers' Union (says
The
Melbourne
Herald).
Members of the union engaged
in . Government, work
on
the
Greenhill
"road asked for an increase of wages from
8 /to 9/ a day.
This title Government refused.
Straightway,
-without
consulting
the Labour Council, or paying Ok least attention
to -the advice of Labour Ministers,
Ihe 'men threw down their tools.
Assuredly
this is not playing the game.
lii . Sydney
tic -Frharf labourers have taken up a position
which is vigorously denounced by their
fellows in otter States.
Brisbane
has
urged "the strikers to resume work at once
pnder the agreement entered into with the
employers, and to loyally abide by
it."
Melbourne workers take the same view.
Assuredly the Sydney •wharf labourers are
not . playing the same.
If it were worth
while,'it v woold'be easy to multiply
examples
of this painful, indifference to moral
•obligation.
Scone of - the
offenders
apparency
believe in • spoils for the victors.
Uiey^ave not wit to . see thai, apart" from
right
or wrong, the ma-niti cannot be acted
on by a. crowd.
In any prosperous community
a few people can live by" plunder.
'Cut ihe. millions cannot do that, whether
•the robbery take the vulgar form of picking
each other's pockets or the subtler one of
eel line each other 'worthless shares.
The
workers
can
retain political power
only
by going politically straight.
"Hiss Jocondo.**<
• '-The following -amusing version of , the
theft.of Da. YinciV masterpiece "La. Gidjc6nda"/,from
tie Louvre is reprinted by
iheParis journal L'Opinion from The
Chicago : Methodist. .Chronide:—"In the
last days of . August a. young lady visitor,
Miss Jooando, was abducted in . breed daylight,
.by ^ daring rariaher vriiile she -was
visiting the Louvre Mnswrm.-- This , regrettable
incident is a, fresh proof of the
dangers which. honourable young * -women
run noLOnly in the streets.' but even.:in
the,'public establishments of the modem
•Babylon. . Let us hope that the-lesson .may
not be lost, and that it may make plain
thedangers "to which, -women -travelling
alone in" Paris expose themselves in spite
of the \-wamines which, we„ continually -address
Jo tUem."
feathers for Men's Hats.''
.' It has ions bee» the custom of 'men of
ihe sporting class to wear a email bird's
leather in. the band of: the bat, but it api»ears
froman article in The London. Daily
Express that tile fashion is likely to become
general.
OniSthnkieista.
who
ore
- strenuously .endeavaunng-co etamp out the
feather-weacintr habit
women, have
' now. anoijier cruel and absurd fashion, as
they.regard it, to fight against.
The Express
states bats are bong', worn with, a
woodcock's or . jar's feather stuck in
the
' )>and . at ihe; back, -where the broad,
fiat
bow is situated, and that eome
'"attractive
little feathers from foreign doves and
;||fij|bjbnts are also}Jmg,jiiitrodueed -for
|y®ipurpo6e." , An^mmal of the Ornithoiopsts'
Vnion .6tat^^5to-|^ay'.i&ai 'poeably..
»Utie-«pecies s&. ^Anstcalaaan iu^ wiuilii
be ; -vi£tip$ized to eitikfy - tlie tashion, and
, lie wouldbtfog the matter before the council
for consideration.. At-the nest meeting
of the Bird Observers' Clnb also, there will
probably be -a" discusEoon on -the subject.
3?hc feathers ofgainebirds are commonly
,used- for hat r bauds, those of the bronze-
' (wing-pigeon and quail being favoured,
tiroall feathersfnom-tlie breasts of the
roeella and other parrots are also sought
*foer"for this purpose^
Dickens's Plays in=iParis.
The season which, is just beginning here
{says a Paris water), promises to be a, real
Dickens one. A play tlzased on the travels
and'adventure of Mr. Pickwick was w^el!
leceiv-cd at the Athenee Theatre. The enr-
. iainha3 to be raised seven times after the
jManor ^armecene on 'Christmas Day. M.
Anioine iS giving shortly at the (Meow
.Theatre a production founded on *®avid
• Copperfield;" and the Montmartre is to
stage a play from "Martin Chuzzlewit-"
"Press and Perspiration.
" Mr. Seymour /Hicks. was once complaining
to Sir Arthur Pinero about the way
•the newspapers persist in emphasizing his
energy. 'The particular notice he complained
of ran:—"Mr-Hicks seemed to pferfspire
more-than usual on this occasion."
"Seymour. I'm not sure they are wrong, 7 '
replied Sir. Arthur. "And if I -wire you
I should.not advertise, 'Doors open at
eight-' I should alter it to 'Pores open
at nine'!"
Comedy of a Bracelet.
How- a woman's subtlety may sometimes
overreach itself is illustrated by the disas-
' trous- failure of a clever little ruse : which
, the wifeo'f a wealthy but economically dis-
- posed Berlin -^merchant employed
(writes
the Bedin-correspondent of
The
Daily
Mail):
The lady had set ber heart upon
becoming the possessor of a bracelet -which
fie had eecninthe window- of "a jewelleKs
chop.
She found on enquiry that the price'
>. af .the omameht.was £30, which she knew
more than her husband would pay. She
therefbre- explained the
circumstances
to
, the jeweller, and suggested to him the foi-
" lowing plani—The lady would coax l}er
husband into coming to the shop-to ask the
. Tost- of the bracelet.
The jeweller was
thereupon to ask £151 for it, and was to . allow.her
husband, after- considerable
bargaining;'
to beat him down to
£10.
At
this price the husband was to be allowed
to have the bracelet, and the wife would
afterwards make up the difference of
£20
' to the jeweller out of her pinmoney.
The
. jilot worked admirably, and the
husband
-earned", off the bracelet tor
£10 in" great
glee at the good bargain he had driven.' On
the way home he -went into his club -and related
his success to his
friends,
proudly
showing them the bracelet.
One of his
companions, recognising the real worth of
the jewel, at-once offered to give him £15
for it. . The .German merchant could not
resist the second triumph, and
returned
home without the bracelet to tell his wife
with pride how he had bought it for £10
J- and solvit for £15.
His complacency was
turned to horror when his weeping wife confessed
that there was still £20 to be paid
1
on the ornament, and that "what he had regained
as a profit of £5 was really a dead
loss .of
£15.
Gilbertian Jokes. -
I was once lunching at Grim's Dyke, says
Mr. C. H. Workman, in The <Tourt Journalj
and told Over the lunch table the story
of-the old German trombone player, who,
dosing his music, squashed a fly across the
' clef, and when he came to that particular
passage, the next evening ran down the
seals,- remarking. "I don't know vot it vas,
fat ! plaved it." Gilbert struck it quietly
from the" other end of the table, "Are you
sure it was a fly, Workman? It might
hare been a b f ee flat." As Jack Point, in
"The Yeoman of the Guard," there is one
scene in which, standing in between Elsie
Maynard and Phoebe, I jaed to kiss the
che^k of Tirst one and then the other
quicldy and repeatedly, and Sir -William
thought there was too much kissing" for 3
Savoy audiencc. "You would cut this
kissing then/' 1 said. "I would not," he
(•turned drollr. "hot I would a*k you to."'.-
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