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THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1928.

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* SUN AND SURF.

THE CALL OF THE BEACH.

AUSTRALIAN DELIGHTS.

our eyes.

THE CHINA MAIL,

the frothy backwash creaming on your face.

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PLATITUDES.

The dumpers cease for a time, followed by a series of "flats" WHY EVERYBODY IS BORED waves with the full face of

BY THEM. shoot, but whose lighter green betrays the hollow back which SELF-EVIDENT TRUTHS. means lack of pace and body.

All roads lead to the surf. So Suddenly there is an eager surge A well-known politician said we find when the car joins the and the front-rankers are racing the other day that he preferred stream of traffic northward bound out to "get, on to" a shoot. Yes! platitudes to epigrams "They for the wonderful beaches that There is no mistaking the dull are less tiring and more true."

I do not dispute either of these fringe the coast from Manly to green bulge of that big roller

rokon Bay, At last parking capped with the cur! of foam statements, but I am not at all space is found in the ranks of which is the badge of speed. The sure that an epigram, which cars that crowd the ocean paradeoff and lash the water with fran-ality, may not be more effectual in vanguard wheel as one man, kick startles one by its wit or origin- of one of the further resorts. The crowd is in holiday mood, and tic strokes as the wave is on rousing one to see the truth than there is pleasure in watching the head surge forward, racing like tude, which never makes one them. The shoulders and upflung the more actually truthful plati- living, colourful pageant before the figurehead on some storm- think at all, writes John Blunt in

A murmur in the crowd, and we and they are lost to view, but soon

driven galley. The wave crashes the "Daily Mail." turn to see an outward surf-boat the broad back shows, head down, planing down a rushing green hill of water, the spray flying from its boring torpedo-like through the bow. A towering statuesque fig-shore a dripping figure rises

shallows. ...Fifty yards in ure in the stern dips and strains on the great rudder-oar; the craft among the wondering paddlers turns, rides head-on through a rido.

and struggles back for his next crashing "dumper," and soon is tossing, a dazzling white shape,

Away to the left a bather is on the blue water further out. As it surges from trough to creat, caught in a channel, and heralds there is a glimpse of four bronzed the fact with, much splashing and Argonauta atraining at the sculls, struggling. In a flash a man has while the sunlight glances on the plunged in, and is flogging his white helmet of the young Juson way through the choppy water in the prow and the flashing chest. At intervals on the shore

sweep of oars. These are the men

Rescue.

with the saving belt round his

our beaches breed-Vikings of are three reelmen standing like

peace whose mission is to save.

Surf Heroes.

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in his liking for platitudes. In- I cannot follow-this-politician deed, I know few things more stream of platitudes, even though irritating than to listen to a every one of them contains a use- ful and well-tried truth.

Not Evidence Of Thought. For it must be remembered that people who load their conver- sation with platitudes do not do so because they have thought deeply about the problems of humanity, but in order to save themselves from thinking at all. early stories gains much praise A character in one of Dickens's by announcing solemnly that statues, calmly paying out the "man without woman would be lifeline with hands raised over-alone." but it is clear that that head. signal for them to bend, to the would only be made by an ass.

An upflung arm is the remark, though perfectly true, task, hauling rhythmically hand over hand, with muscles start ing under the double load. After a long pull the couple are wading grins, slaps his salvage. on the back to safety. The rescuer back, and flings the belt at a com- rade with a laughing word. A fine boy this, yet typical of hun- dreds of young savers. He is Aloft in the watch tower is breathless, but dashes the water "Ossie," the team captain, yarn-from his eyes, and mounts the ing with

a group of idolising sloping beach with all the grace youngsters. With arms clasping of the marching stride he has sunburnt legs they learn how learned in sand and shallow water, their hero' and his mates showed The poise of head, the swinging the South Africans the noble art shoulders, and sway of hips are a of surfing at Durban. For among the senior clubmen of the coast are hundreds of A.LF. men- great-limbed, massive fellows in their prime, who not long ago put

Out beyond the breakers is youngster lying full length on huge surf-board, which he paddles slowly with his arms, henving lazily on the swell. He crouches, watching a following wave, and next instant is erect, with legs apart and arms outstretched a picture of Neptune's charioteer driving his racing team from ahield-shaped car.

the fear of death into the Prus- slan Guards. And the younger men, still with the grace of the schoolboy athlete, are sons and brothers of Anzacs. Lithe and slender of limb, theirs. are the depth of chest and breadth of shoulder that come of battling with a stubborn surf from child- hood.

delight to the eye, while the firm, rounded limbs move with effort less grace. Truly a feast for our sculptors-a model, all ready in living bronze.

After

Halcyon.

a swim, a smart run along the sand is voted breathless work, so one sits for a space like the Lotus Eaters.

platitudes is that they are so ob- And, in fact, the fault of most vious that they are not worth. uttering. Either they are truths since we were children or they are which have been known to us self-evident statements that can be taken for granted. In any case they call for no mental effort and come to be mere sounds.

Value of Shocks.

I admit that epigrams, when they are simply a straining after smartness, may be just as irritat- ing as platitudes, but at any rate they do make one sit up. Plati- tudes are a soporific, but epigrams

if they are really witty-are like an electric shock. And from time to time we are all the better for being shaken out of ourselves.

All the same, I am not one of those who believe that real know- ledge or wisdom can be contained in a few words. I always dia- trust those who sum up a situa- tion or a problem by a platitude or an epigram, for I am quite sure that the complexities of life cannot be summed up and round- ed off neatly.

They only tell us a partial truth; and, as we know, a partial. than an actual lie. I never like truth may be more misleading listening to platitudes, I some- times like listening to epigrams, but in neither instance do I expect to hear any comprehensive or ultimate truth.

REJUVENATION.

Sefentists tell us that man need

never grow old, that it is his deli- berate neglect to

To watch the crisping ripples

on the beach And tender curving lines of

creamy spray. A delighted squeal from little

The sun pours down a flood of "Skeeter" interrupts the tale.streaming golden light like a beni- Following his pointing finger wekiss glows on the skill still tingl son upon the sand. Its warm sce "big brother Bluey" carving ing with the cool salt drops; the his way through a heavy sea to heavy, spray-laden breeze trem- his "patient," who is treading bles on the limbs like a caress, water a hundred yards out. Bluey (aged 15) has the belt, and and the air is quivering in a is practising for the great day mellow dream from the great blue when he will join the life-saving

are of sky down to the living glow club, the beach Asgard where lids we are aware of the bright jof sand. Under half-closed eye- dwell the kings and heroes of the flash of colour-the flutter of a Įsurf.

Well, the day is getting hot and silken wrap, a gleam of gold on the water is inviting. Answering some girl's rounded arm; rainbow its call, one is soon threading a patchwork of sunshades and the functional balance that limits his way through the ranks of splash-owing lines of sinewy limbs, days to the Scriptural three score ing bathers to where

Beyond it all, the boil of surf and years and ten. a dozen heads bob in a line far beyond the above it all, that clean, blue vast the fountain of youth in out-of-the- a haze of distant headlands;

There is no longer need to seek; rest. These are the vanguard, masters of every kind of roller pess the miracle of an Austra-way places. The chart to its dis- that sends the greenhorn gasping lian sky,

covery is in the hands of all. That Why envy the gods of Homer, chart points clearly to the main- debauched in the marble palaces tenance of the human system in of Olympus, swilling nectar from normal functional balance, by the gold and ivory vessela? need of nectar when the mouth re-re-inforce natural function and judicious employment of media that Joices in the cold, salt freshness thereby help to ward off illness. which only the surf can give?

In simple language, the key to the The gods of Tennyson's poem retention of youthful zest for life, lived to the sound of

Clanging fights and flaming

to

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