Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-13

IS run never hnds any highpriced per-
formances on the boards.
Next to horse racing the Australian Is
devoted to cricket. 1t is q game which
has been popular with the British for
generations. Personally l never could
understand it and appreciate IT, but l can
understand the enthusiasm with which
Butons regard 1t, for have seen the
same attitude among our own people
toward baseball While we We're In
Melbourne a series Of matches was be-
ing played between teams representing
Australia and England. l am told that
these matches attract crowds Of 10000
TO 10000, and / have seen men and wom-
en- alike damned about open air score
boards where the plays of the matches
were being posted, cheering wildly when
a favorite makes a good play or groan-
ing when the rivals are leading. 1t Is
our own love for baseball, but lavished
upon another game.
The papers here are full Of long sto-
rles about the matches and about the
players and columns OF letters from
ardent fans discussing the merits Of the
teams. Reading them through you will
find Its here and there Of the fair play
spirit which characterizes the average
Briton, or the spirit of fair dinkum," as
they call the square deal out here.
SLANG MUCH USED
IN MELBOURNE.
Probably It is Melbourne's so-called
sporty spirit which is responsible for
the great amount Of slang which is used
by It's people The shop windows use
slang often in attracting attention to
their displays; even a perfectly respect
full clerk or servant wiz spring 1t on you.
The use Of slang seems pretty nearly
as general in Melbourne As 1t does In Chi
cago. 1t may interest lou, too, to learn
that most of our American slang had its
birth in the days of the forty miner, when
Australians fiocked to California to try
their luck In the gold fields. At least
so a learned professor out here wrote to
one Of the papers the other day in reply
to the published charge that Australians
seemed inclined to adopt many Ameri-
can sins without adopting a few Ameri-
can virtues at the same time. Tho par
ticular thing which was under IRE was
the habit Of eating ice cream cones In
public.
The women of Melbourne are good
looking as a rule and dress well and
far more modestly than the styles in
vogue when we left the United States.
Auoy duulL, uONeFeEg ludI tuey use great
quantities Of cosmetics and face powders
to help out their compilations because
they say that the streets are so dusty
that womans face won't stay clean I'M
less she powders and paints Personally
1 think that is just one Of their little
Jokes at their own expense, for l saw
hundreds of fair, rosy checked misses
who would fare well If put up in compe-
tition with their English cousins.
\ 1t might work just as well If the cos
metics were poured on the streets, for
when wind comes up, as It often does
as the forerunner of rains that come down
at intervals for two or three days at q
time, Melbourne is truly a swirl of dust.
There doesn't seem to be our systematized
effort to sweep and sprinkle regularly.
There are many fine homes out in the
residence districts, and in the suburbs
Of Greater Melbourne and st. Kilda road,
leading from the city proper to one Of