NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 15 January 1926, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

Til Pi mi IN INK MIND. LONDON, Nov. 28. Dr Olive A. Wheeler, professor of education at the University College, Card iff, staled in a lecture at Cardiff that experiment lias revealed that women are superior to men in general intelligeute. Conclusions she drew were: Mental tests showed that there were more very good aggregates of marks gained by men and boys, but also more very bad averages than by women and girls. Lt could he said, therefore, that women were slightly superior in intelligence but tended more lo cluster round the average. There were more outstandingly brilliant cases among the men, hub also more mental defectives and lunatics. The experimental results made a ease for tire earlier enfranchisement ot women than of men.

A leading ps.vscological authority, a Hurley-street doctor, slated to a reporter that he declined lo accept the contentious of Miss Wheeler, and he did not believe that they would !>e credited generally. Women, he said, might have a more penetrative imagination, hat in general logical reasoning they lagged tar behind men. In the higher examinations in mathematics and philosophy they did not perform, nearly so well as men.

A class of women, he said, may do lbe-e tests better limn a class <<! men. hut it will usurlily he found that it is because they are not so bored by them as men. 11 has been ascertained that, men will not lake trouble over them, because while they are perlormiug them they believe in their minds that lhey could he spending the time to betfnr advantage.

A feature of mi mis ” i ;uln;i l ion at Glasgow University on Saturday was the lai'jic proportion of women among the students who were capped, highlylive women and 13 men received the ordinary arts degree. 'I he males, however, predominated in the honours list. WHY WORKMEN DRINK ID-Eli. LONDON; Nov. 28. “Alcohol has come to stay," declared Sir William -Milligan, the ear and throat specialist at a meeting or Lite Manchester Diocesan Church of England Temperance Society last night, “ft is a food and a very valuable drug.” AJoohpl, he continued, was—in moderation— heueficial, as it required no digestion and was transformed very quickly into heat and energy. Ihe miner'soaked in perspiration was right in drinking a glass of Inter instead ol a glass of water, because heer supplied the salts which perspiration had taken away from the system. _ ■Many a workman drinks lieer to minimise the bad effect of his wife’s cooking, and if all the young women were taught—instead uf botany, physiology, and kindred subjects—how to cook a potato and roast a piece ot heel there would be less drunkenness. empire menus. LONDON', Nov. 28. As Christmas draws near s ‘g l,s , in ‘ crease that the “Empire Shopping Week” movement is being adopted whole-heartedly throughout the e.ouii'"in Empire foods the wise ltousewile knows that she gets a product which lias been treated cleanly throughout. One of manv Empire menus, prepared in front of an interested ami slbditlv surprised audience at the Institute of Hygiene, Poll land-place. \V looked dainty and tasted good. A complete meal for four, cooked m a gasoven. its cost was less than 2s a head, the menu being as follows: Sweet Corn Soup (Canadian).. Sole a la Newfoundland. Roast Loin of Land) (New Zealand). .Potatoes en casserole. Cauliflower (English). Bat leans: Bananas (Banana Cream m in Skins) (.Jamaica). Australian Salad (Emits, Celery and Nuts, in a special mayonnaise, dress

ed with lettuce). ~ . „ How Australian and South African wines are improving is shown m t c jurors’ report on this year’s Colonial Wine Competition. It is stated that Hock types were very clean, with some spcciments making a distinct approximation to standard. Entries of sweet wines were numerous and', viewed as a whole, very creditable, while exhibitors ot brandies should have every reason to be tHither encouraged. _ Sherry wines, however. were disapointing. MORE BLUE TRAINS. PARIS. Nov. 28. Travellers on the Continent next spring will find London connected by fast luxury trains with every impoitaiit •tf&i; sure** up* within three hours’ rail journey o Paris. Another of the famous blue trains will be added to the Riviem service very shortly, and another ***o- - train similar in all respects to tlie Riviera blue train will be added to the Paris, Biarritz, and Pau services. The luxurious Cote d’Argent express, which used to be intermittent has now been made permanent by■ « International Sleeping Car ( ° npa whose chairman. Sir Dawson PaD el. has arranged for the extension of the blue trains to the Unban notably on the Romc-Mdan, E) e Genoa-Turin, and Rome-Sy lacuse 1 °The Simplon-Orient express now puts London and Paris in daily communication with Constantinople, n and Athens, while Berlin « , Warsaw, and Riga are to benefit by new fast services with London.