MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 December 1927, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

(Australian & N.Z. Cable Association.) WHAT THE LADY SAID. NEW YORK, Dec. 9. A burglar who .sought to be polite to his woman victim, got badly fooled when ho picked .Mrs Elsie Clayton. She returned to her apartments and found Lhe hui-glar ransacking her rooms. ‘‘.Pardon the intrusion,” he said lightly, but proceeding systematically on bis job. ‘‘Pardon, bell,” replied the lady, who slapped his face. The thief then ceased to be a gentleman, and struck her. She kicked bis shins, and soon they roughed and tumbled like two Melbourne wrestlers, she screaming all the while. Four janitors lugged the burglar to the police station.

LONDON TO DUBLIN. LONDON, Dec. 9. The aeronautical correspondent of the ‘‘Daily News” says that Imperial Airways Ltd. is negotiating with the Free State Government to operate a London Dublin air service. 1w i n-engi nod Handley Page-Xapicr land machines will convey the passengers to Liverpool, and luxurious Hying finals, with a AIK) h.p. air-cooled engine, and accommodation for 15 passengers. will complete the journey with a short jump across the Irish Sea. The trip will occupy four hours a« compared with the ten hours taken by train and Imat.

ENC LAND’S PROSPERITY. LONDON. Dee. 9. I rgiiig more effective infant welfare service. Sir Ceorge Newman, chief medical officer of the Ministry of Healtli and the Board ol Education, declares that between n-quarler and one-third ot children, when they first go to school, need medical attention. This yearly recurring burden of disease is so heavy owing to the ignorance of parents ana to had feeding. “ Food is more important than raiment,” he added. “ yet many Foolishly prefer silk stockings before food.” “Nevertheless, modern English children are better nourished, stronger, taller, and heavier, than they were in 1907. They should have greater opportunities for recreation and more playing fields. “ It would he difficult to estimate,” he concluded, “ how much the national prosperity is due to the national tradition of sport, developing the physique.; and the qualities of the mind, and the character requisite to attainment in every walk of life.”

LLOYD GEORGE'S EARNINGS. LONDON, Dee. 9. Mr Lloyd George, the. former Prime .Minister, asserts that he lias not touched a penny of his famous party war-fund for private purposes. ffei confesses, however, that hif journalistic emoluments during the last four years, far exceed his aggregate salary for the seveiiten years in which lie held office. WED SEVEN TIMES YEARLY. LENINGRAD, Dee. IT Official .statistics show that Russians with a record of six or seven marriages within a single year are not uncommon. There were three divorces b> every four marriages during the first live months of 1927 the exact figures were IKiSI marrrla.ges 725‘< divorces. The increase In divorces during these live months compared with the corresponding period of last year was 840 per cent.

SI’NSWNK AND HEAT. LONDON, Dee. 16. ‘‘Scientists have now discovered all the secrets of life-giving and heat-giv-ing rays, and every house can, in future, lie the home of eternal sunshine and warmth.’’ said an expert, commenting on the exhibition of light and heat appliances for medicine, surgery, and hygiene, at. its opening in London. He explained that artificial Alpine sunshine can he switched on from mercury vapour tubes, concealed in the eeil in g. “Houses will be fitted solely with glass, permitting the entrance of the sun’s ultra-violet rays, which, at present. are excluded,” he added. “A mercurv vapour lamp in the pantry will impregnate food with rays carrying vitamin ‘D.’ conveying lite-giving energy.” HOYS’ STREET FOOTBALL. LONDON, Dec. 16. The Earl of Cavan, in a letter published in the “Daily News” concerning tlio disclosure that 20 boys, who had been playing football in the streets of Sheffield were imprisoned because they were unable to pay a few shillings fine, says: “All must be shocked at ike magistrates concerned, hut such a woeful impairing of the boys’ chances in life is a far greater shock to a community. which enjoys tennis courts, cricket and football fields, golf courses, hunting fields and shooting moors. “"While we are playing games in comfort .thousands are forced to play in the streets, risking the prison taint and endangering their social and moral welfare.”

The Earl urges su]>port for the playing fields movement to provide moie playing areas for the youth of England, in which the Duke of York, whom he accompanied on his Empire tour, has displayed such a keen and pro'lleal interest.

fed through skin. VIENNA. Dec. 15. Tt is now possible for patients who cannot take food in the ordinary way to be fed through the pores of the skin, asserts Dr Stcjskai, who yesterday demnstrated his method to the Society for Diseases of the Digestion and Metabolism. Me claims to have succeeded in nourishing a large number of patients through the skin after experiments extending over a year. Artificial feeding through injections into the blood and digestive tract he regards as unsatisfactory. as the food thus given is incompletely absorbed. Tt is a generally accepted tact, declares Dr Stejskai. that sonic fats can lie absorbed through the skin. V ith this knowledge to guide him. he lias compounded a mixture of fat. proteid sugar. , and flic necessary vitamines. massaging this concentrated food into the skin. The' importance of the discovery is bard to over-estimate, as tin* digestive organs of a patient can be rested for long periods while the bodily heat and strength are kept up by nourishment absorbed through the pores.