GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2332, 22 September 1921, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

A singular instance of kpeltomania is reported from Orleans, where a wealthy wine merchant has been arrested. The police had been bn tiled for a considerable time by a series of burglaries committed at Orleans ironmongers’ shops. The articles recently stolen included a large copper boiler. Suspicion eventually fastened on the wine merchant, who finally admitted the theft. A search carried out at his castle, situated on a magnificent estate not far from Orleans, revealed the stolen boiler, a number of other similar boilers, and a large quantity of hardware, all of which the kleptomaniac admitted he had stolen in a moment of weakness and hidden in the cellar.

An insurance company of Hartford, Connecticut, employs 6,006 girl clerks. Hereafter none of them will wear bobbed hair if they wish to keep their jobs. Air F. K. Daniels, director of the company, has announced that no more young women with bobbed hair will be employed, and he intimated that those already on the pay roll would be gradually eliminated. “The reason for this order,” said Air Daniels, “is that w» want workers in our offices, and not circus riders.” Managers of other businesses in Hartford have taken the same stand, the general opinion being that girls with bobbed hair are frivolous and careless.