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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1633, 27 December 1912, Page 5

Dr. Woods Hutchinson, writing in "Good Housekeeping" of foot troubles, says that most physicians experience difficulty in getting women to take adequate exercise in the open air. "Three-fourths of tho almost insuperable difficulties encountered in such a crusade," he says, "are due solely to ridiculous and vile-fit-ting shoes." ' So tho Chinese women are not the only ones who need emancipation from foot-binding.

Robert Burns mementoes seem to retain their interest for collectors better than those of some other famous people; at a recent sale an autograph letter of Burns to John Clark, on' tho death of' Robert Riddell, brought 950 dollars, whilo on "extremely interesting" letter from Lord Byron, written a month before his death, brought only 255 dollars, and a letter from Queen Elizabeth to tho Earl of Mar was sold for 275 dollars.

A farmer, says an Irish paper, was asked to buy a bicycle. "What is that?" he asked.. "It's a machine to ride about the town on." "And, sure, what might the price of it bo?" "Fifteen pounds." "I'll rather see fifteen pounds in a cow." "But what a fool you would look riding ?ound the town on the bnck of a cow" "Pure, now," re;it)oil tlio Irishman, "not half suoh a fool a3 I'd look trying to jn.Uk a bioycler