NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 1076, 30 July 1912, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

People ought to know, declares the “Family Doctor,’’ that the very best thing they can do is to eat apples just before retiring for the night. Persons uninitiated in the mysteries of the fruit are liable to throw up their hands in horror at the visions of dyspepsia which such a suggestion may summon up, but no harm can be done even to a delicate system by the eating of ripe and juicy apples before going to bed. The apple, proceeds this authority, is excellent brain food, because it has more phosphoric acid in easily-digested shape than any other fruits. It excites the action of the liver, promotes sound and healthy sleep, and thoroughly disinfects the mouth. This is not all—the apple prevents indigestion and throat diseases.

The. good old name of John Smith does not suggest in Knglish. any' great degree of aristocracy, but transferred to other languages it seems to climb the ladder, so to speak. Thus, in Tatin it is Johannes Smithus, in Italian it is smoothed off to Giovanni Smithi, Spaniards render it Juan Smithus, the Dutchman adopts it as Hans Schmidt, the French flatten it out to Jean Smeet, and the Russian says Jouloff Smittovskt. When John Smith gets in to the tea trade of Canton he becomes Jovau Shimmit ; the Icelanders reier to him as Jahne Smithson ; if he trade among the Tusquaroras he ft becomes Ton Qua Smittia; in Poland he is known as Ivan Schmittiweiski; should he wander among Welsh mountains they talk of Jihon Schmidd ; when he goes to Mexico he is called Jonth F’Smitti ; and in Turkey he is utterly disguised as You Seef.