MISCELLANEOUS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 September 1927, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS

(Australian d; N.Z. Cabin Association.J JiEAT FOR PROSPERITY: LONDON, Sept. 2. The possibility of boring holes four of live miles apart, for the purpose of utilising the earth’s internal heat, was dismissed at the Science Congress by a Civil engineer, Mr J. L: Hcdgsoii, who emphasised that the hot rocks in the earth’s interior have stored heat thirty milion times the amount of the heat stored in the earth’s coal reserves. If, he said, he went down into the earth for thirty miles, man would tap tenfold the heat contained ill ou! ; (Vial deposits, thereby providing heat, that would last mankind for many thousands of years. Such exploitation, he added, was on the border line of practicability. CHANNEL SWIM. LONDON, Sept, 3. America's “Heavenly Twins,” tho sisters Phyllis and Berenice Zitenfeld, aged 13 years, abhtidohed their attempt td make the Channel swim from til pc Grisne/. (France); after being four and a half hours in the water. They siiid that the water was choppy and as cold as ice. They were willing to continue, but their mother hogged them to abandon the attempt. An English girl, Jane Dawen, also abandoned the swim, after covering six miles in seven hours. MORE BUTTER-FAT WANTED. LONDON, (Sept,, ft. Doctor Chillier, at the Science Congross, estimated the human requirements of butter fat at from forty to fifty grammes daily per capita. This is equivalent to one glass of milk and o no ounce of butter per day per person. He stated the British consumption was only thirty grammes per day. The deficiency was largely responsible for the people’s imperfect development a lid ill health; “The Times” has a leading article on Dr Cramer’s paper at the Science Conference on butter fat. “The Times” recalls Doctor Corrymau’s discovery that the daily addition of a pint of milk and one ounce of butter to a boy’s diet- produced a striking increase in the physical and mental vigour. If this fact were recognised, it would have a tremendous influence on dairying MY LADY NICOTINE. LONDON, Sept. 2. London specialists disagree with the American, Doctor Earp. who, as the result of experiments made at Antioch College, in Ohio, says that non-smok-ers’ brains are better than the brains of smokers and that ten per cent of the heavy smokers at the College have been dismissed owing to low scholarships, six per cent of the lighter smokers and only two per cent of the nonsmoker?.

Professor Leonard Hill recommends the office workers to use the pipe as a substitute for fresh aim He points out that it mildly stimulates the iiir passages, thus preventing infection of the respirations tract, like influenza, pneumonia.

Another London specialist says that tobacco is a very useful sedative. It rests the brain. It prevents the machine from over working. Smoking, is the best fashion yet introduced for women, ns it steadies the nerves.

A third specialist is of the opinion that, since Sir Walter Raleigh, many clever men have found both inspiration and solace in tobacco, and if a feeble minded person smokes, it does not imply that the majority of the non-smokers are more intelligent.