NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2456, 20 July 1922, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

■ A census of a schoolroom in Minneapolis, Minnesota, s)howed that among 91 scholars present there were 31 different nationalities.

By providing skilled dental and optical treatment for his staff, a Bradford manufacturer has improved the output of his mills. shoes which women are wearing nowadays are radically wrong from every point of view,” said, Dr. Truby King at Timaru. “The high heels are preposterous and .make exercise impossible, and they also crimp up the tpes.” Latest advice received by cable from Singapore show a fall in white pepper quotations of id per pound; advances of id per lb and 3d per pound on nutmegs and mace respectively; seed tapiocas advanced 3d per cwt. and pearl 1-id per cwt. ; liagoon rice for starch making advanced 2s 6d per cwt. ! New Zealand being a large exporter of frozen mutton and beef and consequently of skins and hides, it will come a% a surprise to many to learn that there is also a considerable import trade with Australia in skins and hides (says (he Wanganui Herald). According to statistics compiled on the other side during the year 1919-20, there were imported into New Zealand woolled skins valued at £6,268, skins without wool valued at £649 ;md 31,286 hides valued at £55,358. “Medical advice from Harleystreet,” writes a correspondent, “is not usually obtainable except on payment of a substantial fee, but in a letter to The Times Dr. Cecil Webb Johnson has given the world (he following valuable hints with regard to diet: —‘Do not eat if feeling ill; wait for the' return of! a healthy appetite. Nature will remind you when you Tequire more food.' Vary the amount of food you pat each day according to what you have ‘earned.’ A hard day’s work will 'entitle you to more food than a day of comparative idleness. If you feel or know that you have over-eaten at one meal, either miss the next altogether or lessen the amount of food you take at subsequent meals.: Never let a day pass wthout eating some natural food in the form of fresh fruit, green vegetables, nuts or eggs.’ And here is a further piece of advice from the same source which may, or may not make you open your eyes in amazement: ‘Never drink milk; it is an unnatural food except for the young.’ Lots of other doctors are saying that to-day —some of them indeed are even forbidding it to children.”