MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 10 January 1928, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

KILL-JOYS AT THE BREAKFAST TABLE. DENOUNCED BY DOCTOR, LONDON. Dee. 20. Dr. S. G. More .of Huddersfield, does not believe all the alarms about the great benefits of dieting and the equally great evils of indulgence. Recently, the doctor, taking up the cudgels against “ dietie kill joys ” who mobilised the vitamins and conscripted the calories in order to make war on the natural indulgence of a healthy human appetite, said: “ I want to protest against this gastronomic terrorisation of mankind.

" Warm clothing, good cheer and bright entertainment, are the natural antidotes to our (lull, dreary winter. The sensible mail will turn a deaf to the tirades against the foods to which he instinctively turns when there is a nip in the air. “ It is dogmatic nonsense to say that white bread and tinned foods, whether soups, fruit, meats or baked beans, should he rejected because they are deficient in vitamins. They are frequently highly desirable from a medical stand-point, because they are attractive, palatable, warmth-giving and nourishing.

“Healthy and moderate indulgence in those foods we like best is the finest preventive I know against the winter ailments of body and mind.”

ALLIES OF THE PRESS. BERLIN POLICE CO-OPERATION. BERLIN, Dee. 20. Herr Koerrgiehel. the head of the Berlin police force, has just taken a most important step towards assisting journalists in performing I heir often arduous work. He has selected a number of officers and has instructed them to assist the Press in every way they can. in order to lit them for their new duty they have been sent to various newspapers. They will have a ribbon around their arm with the word “ Press” printed on it and will patrol the streets whenever there is a demonstration or celebration of importance. Journalists who need advice, information, or help are asked to apply to tfiein. This innovation was tried out for the first time recently in connection with the celebrations in honour of President H indenliurg.

DOCTOR CONFESSES. world) ALLOW A WAX TO DIE. LONDON, Dee. 30. ■' Nothing could he done for this man except let him die, and even if anything could have been done, I would have hesitated very much before I brought him hack to life.” When a doctor said this to the Birmingham coroner, who was inquirin’' into the death of an aged pensioner, the coroner gravely warned him to he careful of what he was saying. The doctor replied: “ I have carefully considered the matter and have no hesitation whatever in repeating what I said.” He admitted, however, that his views were different to the majority of medical men. The pensioner had suffered from bronchitis, sciatica, and heart disease in quick succession, and was generally in a hopelessly broken-down condition. The coroner returned a verdict of deatli from natural causes.

EDEN OUT OF DATE. sect meets trouble. UEXEVA. Dec. 29. Sixteen Germans of both sexes who walked about the woods on private property in a jxjrfectly nude state in spite of the rain and cold have been expelled from Lugano (Switzerland). They were followers of the simple life and members of the Garden of Eden sect, wnicli endeavoured to emulate the lives of Adam and Eve as recorded in tlie Bible. The police intervened because the local population threatened to severely assault the Edenites in accordance with their own notions of moral codes. Orders were given that the party must leave Switzerland within twentyfour hours—and clothed in a manner satisfactory to local conventions. Among the expelled people were a count and countess and a baroness.

LADY SfMO.VS APPEALS. LONDON, Dec. 29

'• There are at least 4.000,000 slaves in the world to-day,” said Lady Simon, wife of the Liberal leader, Sir John Simon, speaking at Bath.

“ Our first task is to set them fre"our second to secure the complete abolition of slave-owning systems in all forms. Our success in setting free 200,000 slaves in Sierra Leone proves that public opinion is all powerful. “ Everyone knows slavery is a black stain on the record of humanity. In Jamaica the slaves were set free nearly 100 years ago. Their descendants are happy, dignified, peasant proprietors of farms, growing fruit for the markets.”