NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 998, 30 May 1911, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

In the opinion of a settler of Waihakeke, the weeping willow loliage is excellent food and medicine for cows. He states that, whenever they can get at the tree, it will be found that they will consume the leaves and tender branches as far as they can reach. And he builds his theory on that. ” Bill,” said the invalid’s friend, “ I’ve come to cheer you up a bit, like. I’ve brought yer a few flahrs, Bill. I fought if I was too late they’d come in ’andy for a wreaf, yer know. Don’t get down - ’carted, Bill. Lummy, don’t you look gashly ! But there, keep up yer spirits, old sport; I've come to see yer an’ cheer yer up a bit. Nice little room you ’ave ’ere, but as I sez to meself when I was a-comin’ up, ‘ Wat a orkard staircase to get a coffin dahn ! ’ ”

A new chum, intent upon 11 taking down ” a young Australian, said, ‘‘My boy! This country may develop into something some day, but at present I fail to see the least justification for your Australian blow!” ‘‘Do you really, now ? ” retorted the Australian. “ Well! I’ll open your eyes a bit! What about Melba, Mackennal, Oscar Asche, Louis Brennan, Spofforth, Blackham, Noble, Giffen, Trumper, Beaurepaire, Wootton, Gray, Donald Mclntosh, Bill Beach, Searle, Norman Brookes, Donaldson, Tom Burrows, Miss Kellerman, Clark, the cyclist, and young Davis, the world’s beater over hurdles! I do like to hear you new chums talk about champions —Why you don’t know you’re born! ”

To the list of baths, other than mere soap and water baths, must be added the “bath of flowers.’’ This is popular in America just now, and in its various forms is warranted to cure all manner of nervous disorders. Thus at a fashionable New York “hydropath” you can have a bath of boiled roses and lilies for “that tired feeling,” one of pine needles and violets to dispel melancholia, and dozens of other “flowery dips.” The idea is not America’s own, for in Ostend, for years past, it has been possible for 5s or so to bath oneself in concoctions of lavender, lilies, roses, carnations or anything else that may take the fancy. One fair New Yorker, however, seems to have achieved the record. She uses attar of roses, sea water and milk, and her daily dip is said to cost her some 20,000 dol. per annum.