NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 8 November 1923, Page 3

NEWS AND NOTES.

• lust when some eon-en at ive Britons win: oppose modern tendencies in women, had toiind -ohiee in tin- faej timi riding astride was becoming unpopular among the fair sex, conies the announcement that the waitresses ill a well-known We-i End restamant were wearing while duel; troii'i is to make their daily ia-l;s easier. This partieular restaurant also ha- an eye to beauty in choosing it- waitresses, aIt w h.'auty i'infuses call heat them it. point ot looks. Ini the mid-\ ietorianiiave oilier grievances :i- to the way in which thev charge women are going the mice. F'or instance. Mr- Heorge Duller leeently won a motoring eonli'si alter doing mole than sixty miles at: hour, and later Mrs (). s. .Metizie- wen another race at ninety-one miles a: ; lour. Two noted women's crews set the old rowing hands to wondering because of their |in eve --. While critics of the modern English girl say that her strenuous life will cveiituallv have an appalling ell'eet oil the British rare, her champions in-i-i tliai her outdoor life

i- only natural, in view ol her hard ' ; ie during Ilw war. and is humid to have a lieu,'!, in! elfeet . ()ne girl en ti.it-iast -ays • ' It i- heller to go the sporting pace i ban to I e pj-e-et vi ,I a- a vegetable." A native witch doctor ease was in ' e-t igaled at M iddlehin g. near -loh i'i -tui wlien :: vitil, ibietor a'a! Lis ievoiirit,. wife were elia. od with mu: d.-ring; a native hoy. aged two. Evi del'ee wa- given thai th-- liialo nrisoii..: lar'ied the hov oil' to hi- kraal (Tint', and Kent him l her" tor -nine w 'i.m. . ‘ji)-, 1 qi'i l lit ly. it wa- -aid, w he'll ■ e el ill'- liodv was di-eovereil on! m t!i" V'lit it was loitnd that his heart l ed I'. e|, feli'.iu ,‘d 11 f■ h doctor- t. wis -lated. "loailv lirize the human la-atl. which they Use t<• make their medicine. Till' necu-cd were both conin' It 'ed for trial.