NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 24 February 1925, Page 3

NEWS BY MAIL.

SHAVING HIMSELF AT 101. LONDON, January 3. -Mr John Robinson, of Sheffield, who yesterday celebrated his 101 th birthday, rose at liis usual hour, shaved himself, and while eating a substantia! breakfast read the morning newspaper. lie later enjoyed a short walk. He attributes his wonderful health to walking and regular habits. lie eats eggs and bacon, fish, boiled meat, and puddings.

NO .MORE TINY AY A I,STS. LONDON, January 3. One ol the causes of the very much better health of women to-day was the removal of the old-fashioned idea that a girl to have a good figure must have' a small waist, said Dr "Winifred Cullis, professor of physiology, University of London, lecturing at the Regent-street Polytechnic last night.

Elastic hands were liarmles.siie.ss it;e!f compared with the old steel cor-

sets, wliiMi were really steel cages, it was a wonder how people ever managed to get into them. No girl could play hockey in a steel corset with a waist of 12in. No women however great slaves of fashion, would ever he such tools as to go back again to waists that would not let them [ breathe. • ‘‘PLEASE .MARRY US.” LONIKLXj, January 3. A hoy of about 10 and a girl about 2 years younger who attended their mother's marriage in a. AYest End register office yesterday amused tho bridal Party and the oflieals by their desire to billow their mother’s example and get married themselves. “■Please, wc want to ho married •• well,” said the little Imy to the registrar when the bride wa.s asked to sign

tile register. ■‘When you grow up,” said the amused bridegroom, “you can he mar-ii-id. too, and have plenty of flowers.”

Not satisfied with this, the children approached their mother on the subject, and while she was talking to them, they .suddenly held hands and each called out their names as their mother had

previously done. “That’s right.” said the registrar, laughing, “now you are married,” hut not even his persuasion could induce tho little couple to kis.s.

GIRL SUICIDES IN NEAV YEAR VIENNA. Jan. 2.

Twenty people, many of them girls, have committed suicide in the New Y'ear af Y'ienna. A brilliant darner, Use Foulcrmnyor, aged 20, hanged herself at her parents’ flat because she could not endure holidays on small means after comjKirutive wealth.

Another girl, Ernestine 4'omaseheek. aged 23, for a similar reason, shot lerself through the head in the presence ol a girl with whom she lived at a boarding-house.