SOME STORIES.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1927, Page 3

SOME STORIES.

KAY DAY IN 1777. Employers who pay higher wages than are set down by awards have escaped gaol up to now. It was not always thus, for once on a time the master who persisted in his wicked design of deliberate increase was liable to incarceration. In 1777 a case was brought in Bow Street London against six tailors. It seems that those abandoned persons who paid their men more than three and three halfpence per day (the sum allotted by tbe statute of tbe King as a day’s wages). The Act provided imprisonment for masters guilty of this behaviour and in the ease quoted clerks and other employees of the firms were closely cross-examined bv tbe barristers It was proved that although the masters were guilty of the offences they did not pay higher wages “with criminal intent.” The case was dismissed on the understanding that they sinned no more and lowered the stipends. BREAKFAST AIENTT. They broadcast cookery recipes in the United States. The Boston ‘‘Post,’’ a highly respectable and well-informer family journo! said that a young married woman of Alaine bearing that a cookery recipe was to be broadcasted, asked her husband to tune in aruT take a note of it. He got two stations at once. One was instructing the listener in how to do bis daily dozen. Here is what the man took down. “Hands on hips, place one cup of flour on the shoulders, raise knees and depress toes and mix thoroughly in halt a cup of milk. Repeat six times. Inhale quickly half a teaspoonful of baking powder lower tbe legs and mash two hard Vinilcd eggs. Exhale, breathe naturally, and sift into a bowl. Attention ! Lie fiat on the floor and roll the while of an egg backwards and forwards until it comes to a boil. In ten minutes remove from the fire and rub smartly with a rough towel. Breathe naturally, dress in warm flannel and serve with fish soup.”

THE MILK FIEND. A local wag declares that on a recent morning lie found a billy of wafW on liis doorstep “without distinct traces of milk in it.” Glasgow reports a still more subtle humorist. This gentleman had a passion for milk. Living in a populous district, lie went from stop to step gleaming the morning jug. drinkink the contents of each at one gulp, leaving tlie empty vessel where he found them. Prosecuted by the Milk Trust of the district, the magistrate described this curious Scotsman as it “milk bend.’ Tbe Real ALackny failed to draw him, but milk was irresistable. Fined a nominal sum. he went back to his crimes the next morning, eradicating all trace of milk in a small terrace. Then the Afilk Trust did a quaint thing. Tt offered him free milk daily. If he would refrain from absorbing their customers’ supplies he could have gratis drinks galore. He received this gift with gratitude. Filled to the plimsoll with free milk, he instantly departed

as usual to gleam his neighbour's supply. He is now in gaol nursing a supreme milk thirst for tlie glad day when lie is free again to reap his harvest from the door .stops.