GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2418, 18 April 1922, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Boys are not so full of mischief now as they were in I ho days before the war, according !o T. 11. Knight, headmaster ait Wilson’s Grammar School, who says that I he change is due to air raids. These raids, lie said, made IliO'oliildron more nervous, and the fear probably changed (heir lives so that now I hey are not so given to pranks. 1 To also believes that the discipline of Boy Seoul organisations and similar movements have brought about a change which school mast notice. Frau Olgo Srnidt, a Berlih widow, seventy years of age, was dozing on her sofa in the evening, when she heard some one fumbling at the lock of her flat. She suspected burglars, but remained on the sofa. The thief entered and went straight to a wardrobe, which lie alt tempted to open. The old woman took up the poker, and, approaching him stealthily from behind, brought it down with such force on his head that the man fell insensible. He was taken to (lie hospital, where he remained for many weeks. He was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment when lie had recovered. A proposition, startling in its novelty, came before the Manchester magistrates a few weeks ago, in the form of an application for a

license to hold subscription dunces in a church. The applicants were the leaders of the Mill Street Free Church, one of whom said that the number of subscribers to the church was diminishing yearly, and the idea of the innovation was to raise funds for the actual upkeep of the building. -Tickets for the proposed dances would he sold publicly. The magistrates decoded to adjourn consideration of the application. “We do not think that God would object to innocent dancing and gaiety in His house,” said a leader of the church, in discussing the matter afterwards. This is the story about what is known as luck. Mr Jack Solomon went to the Casino at Cannes recently, and when the desire to tempi fortune at the lmcenrsit table came over him he discovered that ho had brought no money. He looked round for a friend from whom lie cohl<l borrow, and found Mr Solly .Joel. Mr Joel, who is far too rich as well as far too wise to play games of chance, lent him £2OO. During the time he played lie risked only £25 of that amount, and when he cashed in his “chips” he was £7,000 to the good. No, there is no moral to this story.