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Hokitika Guardian, 22 April 1924, Page 4

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UN-MARRIED BLISS. LONDON, February 22. Two women centenarians—Airs •Margaret Inglis, of Edinburgh, whp was 107, and Miss Jane Dryer, of Brighton, who was in her 101st year —died yesterday. Miss J. Bryer was proud of the fact that she had never married, and celebrated her 100th birthday hv singing a song on the joys of unmarried bliss. £SOO-A-YEAR. WAITER. LONDON, February 22. An Italian waiter employed at a West End restaurant who was sued at Southwark County Court yesterday , was stated to be “‘living up” to A *>oo a year. Judge Sir Thomas Granger: A waiter with that income! We know now what to do with our boys. BOY BANDITS. VIENNA, Feb. 22 Five bold bad boy bandits, whose ages ranged from 13 to 17, defended with great energy their fortress in a cavern adjoining a romantic ruined castle at Matthiasberg, near Budapest, when it was stormed by the police at midnight and they were arrested. There was a revolver battle which lasted for twenty minutes, hut darkness averted serious casualties. It was impossible for either side to take accurate aim. The boys had spent three months in ■ -s cavern, committing burglaries in unoccupied villas nightly, and accumulating booty said to be worth thousands of pounds, and stores and provisions sufficient to enable them to stand a two months’ siege. They all declare that they did not desire wealth, but longed for the at - venturous careers ot kineina desperadoes.

SMALLER HATS FOR WOMEN. LONDON, Fob. 13. The smaller the head the smaller the. hat is 11 fashion maxim of the moment. and certainly tho “shingled’ head demands very small, tight-fitting headgear. New spring millinery shows a revival of an Early Victorian mode. Ribbon and flowers are arranged on the 1111derbiim at the hack of tiny straw lmls presumably in an attempt to soften the effect of the “shingled” head which is not at iis l>cst when in a bat. One exclusive firm is displaying bats that are replicas of the quaint Early Victorian millinery with the hunched underbrim trimming aml long ribbon streamers. They used to be worn with be-floun-,-od “hustle” gowns, hut there is no suggestion of re-introducing these, although flounces will play an important role on straight tubular frocks for the coming season. CHANGES L\ THE MOON. LONDON, February 1. In her “Astronomy for Young Folks” Miss Isabel M. Lewis lias written an online of astronomy which will ho road with pleasure by the old as well as by the young. This passage raises the question whether the moon is a dead world : Tl'c Itailan astronomer Maggini. observing the floor of the li.nat 01 ale.. Plato, in 19.10. noted that one of the .small crater cones that exist here in great numbers was temporarily obseurel from view by a cloud of reddish vapour. and Professor IV. IT. Pickering at A 1 equina, Peru, observing the same region some years ago, believed lie saw evidence of change in some of these small markings. The floor of Plato is 60 miles in diameter and has been carefully watched. 11 is: One of the darkest objects in tho m oon—a dark steel-grey in colour—and there is no doubt that lor some unknown reason its daik hue deepens Irnm tiie time the sun has an altitude of SOdeg. until after full moon. Some have seen in these mysterious changes of colour signs of vegetation and indications of lite. It seems a pity that Pro!. Pickering’s observations lave not been adequately followed up.

AIR HEXDEKSO.VS SECRET. HOW HIS SONS WERE EDUCATED. J.OXDOX, Uehruarv 22. Air Arthur Henderson, the Home Secretary and Socialist candidate for Burnley, revealed to a women’s meeting at Burnley yesterday how his two younger -sons were educated. When he and Airs Henderson were talking over ways and means of educating their children, he explained, they decided that any money coming into the house when the eldest son went to work should he used to educate the next son ; and when the next son went out the money he brought in should lie used to educate the third son. He continued:

I rejoice more than T can tel! you. and if you think 1 am speaking egotistically 1 cannot help it. It is one of the proudest things in my life that the two bnvs treated in tlie way 1 have just told von aie now members of the House of Commons.

SLEEPY SICKNESS. LONDON, Feb. 20. Health authorities are troubled by the seasonal increase of sleepy - i Loess (encephalitis lethargical. .Manchester is at- present the cLit i centre, but there are isolated eases i'o over and around London : in Chelsea Kensington, Hampstead, Fulham, Southward, Wandsworth, Lambeth, Islington, Hornsby. Afar■ylebone. Lewisham. Wimbledon. Croydon. Ueigatc, and Afalden, Surrey. Doctors confessed to a Daily Alail teportcr that they were helpless to control this mysterious disease, which was first observed in Vienna in 1-917, thou in Paris, and the following year in jloi> don. It has since appeared in nearly all civilised countries, and is regarded

as being being due to some unknown germ, but not at all or only very slightly infectious. A Hospital physician said:

Sleepy sickness is a very fatal disease. The deaths of those attack.“d range from -20 to 50 per cent, of those who recover. The majority suffer drowsiness in the day and restlessness at night, tremors, pains in the limbs, speech defects, and drooping of the eyelids. The worst consequence of all is change in character, well-behaved, nonest, and truthful children becoming mischievous, thievish, and untruthful. Some of these children have found their way to the police courts. CHEAPER INSULIN. LONDON, Feb. 20. Research work on insulin in the treatment of diabetes will be greatly -Urania ted by the announced reduction of price from 12s 0:1 to Gs 8d per bottle cl 10 doses. Efforts are being made to find a method of administering insulin by the mouth instead of by injection % under the skin, and already Dr Ernst Salon, of Sweden, lias met with some sucresin this method by mixing the insulin with olive oil. Another method is being studied by Dr A. Wallgren, of Gothenburg. He rubbed the insulin, dissolved in water, on the skin of a number of diabetic children and found that some of it was absorbed, causing a reduction of sugar in the blood.' The objection to this method is its expense, as about ten times a smucli insulin was found necessary as when given by injection. BRANDY AND FAINTING. LONDON, Feb. 17. Vv'lw?n a woman juror was taken ill at the Old Bailey yesterday the Recorder, Sir E. Wild, K.C., said that owing to the atmosphere of the court it was almost a daily occurrence for someone to be taken ill. He asked if there "ere any brandy which could be given to the iurywomali. Counsel: .It is the worst thing to give liccaii.se the muscles of swallowing being out of action the person may choke. The Recorder: .It is the same with water. Counsel: It is (|tiiie wrong to give any person out of control or in a fit any form of drink. The Recorder said ho was informed the woman had had an operation. She ought not to have served on the jury, but was anxious to do her duty. The ease had to he adjourned. HORSES £1 EACH. MONTREAL, February 20. Thousands of wild horses arc overrunning the graving lands in the Cariboo district of British Columbia, damaging. ranches and enticing domestic animals away. They are becoming such a nuisance that farmers and cowboys are arranging a great round up to capture them. 'file horses will be sold at £1 each, ami those which are not sold will be .slaughtered.