NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1378, 25 March 1915, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

It is related —we do not vouch for the accuracy of the story—that in his capacity as magistrate, the late “Rolf Boldrewood” whose death in England was cabled a few days back, once tried for theft a boy who Was said to have been led astray by reading pernicious books of adventure. After admonishing him his Worship asked him what he had been reading. “ Robbery Under Arms,” was the" reply.

A cortortiouist in Sydney renarked to a pressman : “ I’ll let vou into a physical culture secret. Did you ever know a man begin •nug lo develop paunchiness and getting ashamed of it r I believe such men do exist. We 11, let that fellow with the growing anxiety under bis waist keep performing a simple extension motion —arms at full length above the head, then stoop with straight knees till he touches his toes. Do enough of that, and he’ll need nothing else —and there will be no paunch.”