GENERAL WAR NEWS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XL, Issue 1776, 15 January 1918, Page 1

GENERAL WAR NEWS.

MODERN WOMAN. A story of a scene at a certain tube station is published in the Daily Sketch. Amazonian young factory girls plunged into the place just about alien-swarming time, seized upon a number of fit but sallow young men, pulled them out like terriers after rats, and sent them home through the streets —minus a somewhat important portion of their attire.

SUBSTITUTES FOR TEA AND COFFEE.

As there js practically no tea, coffee, or cocoa left in Germany, the President of the Committee on War Foodstuffs has called attention to substitutes for these substances. These, says the Chemist and Druggist, include dried leaves of the strawberry, blackberry, red currant, raspberry, and cherry trees, as well as the leaves of birches, elm trees, willows, blackthorn, and walnut trees. The peels of apples and pears are also mentioned. The prices at which these are to be sold are suggested, but arc not obligatory.

LEVELLING CLASS DISTINCTION.

Mr John Hodge, the Pensions Minister, thinks class distinctions will he levelled after the Avar, ’’Once peace comes avc shall find all the old hatreds smoothed away and replaced by sentiments of kinship and in-ter-relianee. The workman’s son, his employer’s son, and the aristocrat haA T e been fighting side by side, shoulder to shoulder, enduring the same hardships, facing the same dangei’s, endeaA'ouring with fine unselfishness to saA'e one another’s lives in smoke of battle and trenchmud.”