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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 6, Issue 6 (December 1, 1931)

A Leaning Towards Fattening

A Leaning Towards Fattening.

December is a disseminator of distilled dill-water, or soporiferous soup. Likewise, it is a course of artificial respiration for those in peril on the seize, a sedative for the sadative, a straight answer to a crooked outlook, a crossing of the Bridge of Sighs, bliss after blisters, and hope after hiccoughs. For as everyone knows, December's strength lies in its leaning towards fattening. December's maxim is that the maximum is its minimum or Christmaximum.

After nineteen hundred and thirty-one years of journalistic jobbing it is difficult to find anything new to offer the perspiring public concerning the digestive season, except indigestion, but nevertheless Christmas is never the less for a’ that, and every year brings new problems and proddings in its wake to wake the welkin. For the harder the pace the greater the grating, and consequently the higher the handspring off the board of control when the bored get control. No one will deny that the past year is better past, and that the past has no regrets except that it took so long to pass, but with Christmas raising the wind we are off on the portmanteau tack with the binnacle boxed and the anchor pawned. Let there be no moaning at the bar when we put out to see what's to be seen.