NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1094, 16 January 1912, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

At a recent meeting of doctors in New York a discussion took place on a question of the cause of disease, and the general opinion was expressed that half our ills are due to over-eating, and a good many to food adulteration. Mrs Cooley, of New York, estimates that the average woman, in a lifetime of 70 years, eats 30 oxen, 100 cows, 200 sheep, 50 pigs, 30 000 oysters, 24,000 eggs, and 4 y z tons of bread. A man eats still more prodigiously.

A young lady from Ashburton, who was attending a wedding at Lyttelton recently, was, by a slight accident, mistaken for the bride, and to her great confusion was subjected to the shower of stinging rice which the bride and bridegroom escaped. As the newly-married couple were about to leave the church after the ceremony, the bride suddenly remembered that she had left her bouquet at the altar, and one ol the young ladies attending her returned for it in company with a young man. The bride and bridegroom passed out without the usual honors which were bestowed on the happy looking couple with the bouquet with more than the usual liberality. Newly-married couples have practised many subterfuges so as to escape the attention of friends immediately after the ceremony, and this latest idea shows how inexhaustible a woman’s wit is.