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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2000, 6 March 1914, Page 8

"Don't overfeed the- camel" was the instruction given by the keeper of tho camel in "Joseph and His Brethren," to the man who was placed in charge of tlio animal at Melbourne Theatre Royal. Ho added the caution: "If ho is too well fed lie will get proud, and play up." However, the 'camel was not to bo denied. Ho managed to get at the bag of chaff stored in the proporty rooin for drawing upon at his vjular meal times, and devoured nearly the whole of it. This merely served to slmnen his appetite-, for he. gotWd of the "canopy of the palancfliin in which Miss Ethe< Warwick, as Zuloika, is borne on to the stage, and practically disposed of that. Shortly before the curtain rose on the performance, tho camel's depredations were unfolded, and tho property staff had to set to work to make practically a new palanquin cover, which they accomplished just as Miss Warwick had to make her entrance on tho scene. When Frederick Smith, of Denver, Colorado, was charged with deserting, his tenth wife, it ■' was stated that .he had abandoned her to contract a bigamous marriage-with' his first spouse, whom ho divorced eighteen years ago. TJvree good laughs an hour, and threo square meals and threo hours' work outdoors every day, is the recipe given by Mrs. Thomas Bennett, of Brooklyn, New York, for living' as sho has done to the age of 102 in tho full enjoyment of her i faculties.