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Hokitika Guardian, 21 November 1931, Page 6

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nove'l petition.

NEW GROUND FOR DIVORCE LONDON, Nov. 10. Whether . a wife’s insistence on belonging to a nudist colony and carrying out the physical exercises every morning in the nude is a ground for divorce is the question the Paris Court has been called on decide. The husband, state s the Paris correspondent of the “Daily Mail,” complains that during the 15 years °f happy marriage hi» wife daily brought in morning tea and the newspaper to enable him to read in bed. Now, she suddenly has developed a mania for physical culture, and has joined the nudists on an Island, in the Seine. He adds that he makes -no reflection on the morality of his wife.' The wife retorts that she had reached the age when she began to put on weight. She .is convinced that slimming and sunshine are the secret of perpetual youth. CHANCED TRADE VIEW BRITAIN AND CHINA \ ; A. ■ LONDON; Nov. 13. 1 ‘The old days of trading under treaty. right s have gone. We have to make up our minds to treat the Chinese as clients, whose goodwill has to be “cultivated” said Sir Harv Fox, ex-Commercial Counsellor of the British Legation at Peking, addressing the Royal Empire Society. “We have to discover what they want, to buy, not what we want to sell them. Britain led the way in opening China to world trade, and L am sure we can again lead in adapting ourselvs to the changed conditions.”

GUSTATORY BELIEFS.

GANDHI’S QUEER OUTLOOK

LONDON, Nov. 10

“Gandhi does not eat eggs because he contends that they contain life,” Dr .Tosiah Oldfield told members of the Fruitarian' Society, who entertained the Indian nationalist leader at an elaborate fruit luncheon at Grosvenor House. Dr Oldfield recalled that he' used to share rooms with Gandhi in London. “We disagreed only as to whether eggs could form part of the diet of true fruitarians,” he said. “I argued that not all eggs contained life, and continued to eat them. I am’still eating them. Gandhi would not eat eggs, and still does not eat them.”

Gandhi, in replying, said that he had eaten meat only a few times in his life, “when lie consorted with evil company.” He contended that it was inhumane to drink milk, which was really food for the young and not fo r adults. “I am sinning when I drink goats milk,” lie said, “but. I have been unable to find a substitute.

“1 believe that a plant exists containing the vitamins of milk, but it has not yet been discovered.” Dr Oldfield has published numerous works on dietetics. While at Oxford University he adopted the fruitarian diet, and has since then strenuously advocated its adoption by the higher classes for aesthetic and hnniane reasons. • ...

WILD ELEPHANTS. NEW TERROR IN BURMA. CALCUTTA, Nov. 13. Wild elephants which have appeared in many districts of Burma are causing great trouble to cultivators,, and the night i s made hideous "'it'll their fearful , trumpetings, and the banging of kerosene tins in an effort to keep the huge beasts away from the crops. It is said that the visitation is due to the scarcity of firearms, owing to the precautions that have been taken to quell the rebellion. Tigers, it is reported, are becoming bolder, and have carried off many calves. TURF INTRIGUES. EDGAR WALLACE REVELATION. LONDON, Nov. 10.

How Mr Richard Wootton, now of Sydney, was deceived by a gang which made 'large sums of money by dyeing horses and running them in other names, is disclosed in an article by Mr Edgar Wallace in the “Sunday Graphic.” Mr Wootton is the father of Stanley and Frank Wootton, former jockeys and now trainers in England.

Mr Wallace says that the gang purchased one of Mr Wootton’s horses, dyed it, and entered it for a small selling race at Doncaster. The horse was doped on the day of the race, but on the way to the harrier it ber'ame uncontrollable,, gnawed through the reins and broke them. The jockej- lost control of the horse, which bolted . Mr Wootton, by an extraordinary coincidence, caught the horse, and led it back to the saddling paddock. Mr Wootton, howe.ver, did not recognise it.