"Lucus a Non Lueendo"
To the Editor of the "Nowra-Cuwa Datty News" occasion to prove to myself how Sin—Only a few days ago T had eryon, to hide bodily perfection Hiyperitcal nonsense)"thus, they te2aous secaled overlooked the fact that there may iEer2u Have been some strange onlookers *##t circulate out here. to. whom such an exhibition was entirely' repugnant. Also that there were other, more secluded beaches Torther on, no less beautiful, but more solitary, where doubtless they could proceed' with their ritual unurged by public scrutiny. But, of course, apparently public serum tiny was essential to them!
'So one escapes Shanghai, desirous of forgetting its sounds, its sights, its general appearance, for least a few brief hours! ' and' having braved with patience, dusty, interminable roads "and diverse other inconveniences, one finds a heaven and a haven, One heaves a sigh of rolief—and is. suddenly, Confronted with the sight of Adam and, his Eve walking, not in the garden of Eden, but along the Crowded bench,—to the accompaniment of not too distant gramo-Phones. bawling such very popular melodies. The sun continues sine and shimmer upon the, waves, the enchanting little islands, and green grass, the whole peaceful Scene, "Pertiaps we are old-fashioned, or merely fastidious and do not. wish for have. nudist demonstrations thrust upon Us When we are only out for h rest and peace. "At any Fate, the: majority of us are not, yet, prepared for such br Drazen, and very unnecessary displays." And the fact that, our couple chose to parade in Within a compar period of time, ther by knowledge and with row circle of personal aequi ces, at least five cases with those "safety matches."
'Two of my friends, at different imes, while striking a'single match, thad. the whole box plode in their hands~one of them Fad trouble with his' hand for over fa fortnight while the other one had to be taken to hospital where he re- jak. mained for a week.
'As for myself, whil match, and down not uy of the' match broke off and flew into my face, burning,—it struck me on. the upper lid and just below the eye itself, missing it by the tiniest frac. tion and singing the eye-lashes. Tt was the narrowest escape and by mere chanco the eye itself was not damaged.
T believe that abroad, in Europe Jand elsewhere, the manufacture of such unreliable matches is prohibited and prosecuted. But out here they are produced in large quant ties, and, to all. probability, wil nie' being produced, causing!
ts and being a. positive dan: ger to anyone using them.
"Gan nothing be done to alter the situation -and. have a. check-ap on the proddetion of matches in gen: eral?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.