NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2645, 13 October 1923, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

An indignant Maori recently presented (he Wanganui Competitions committee with a claim for £2 damages. lie stated that while attending n session of the competitions last year he grievously rent his trousers upon a tack protruding from a seat, with the result that he had to sit where he was until the remainder of' the audience had left. The committee, while sympathetic, could not see its way to pay compensation and finally the Maori agreed to abandon his contemplated legal action. As a solatium the committee presented him with a ticket for the coming competitions.

The vicar’s s.on was down from college for the vacation, and the lather thought he would not have a better chance of seeing how his son was shaping for the ministry. So he arranged that the hoy should preach in the morning and afternoon. College had not improved him; he had liee-nn to put on airs, and to cultivate the correct Oxfor t drawl. In the morning, after sundry posturings, he announced his text : “Tie that hath yars to yar, lei him yar. In the afternoon his text was “Now Bawahhas was a robltah." At night the old man preached, and took for his text : “Lord have mercy upon my son, for he is a lunatic and sore tormented." As for the idea that cancer is due to preservatives in food. Dr. Bumpas (an authority who figures in “Notes at Random,” in the “Dominion”) points out that this may be quite sound, but it is not a full explanation, for there has been a still further increase in the incidence of cancer since, then. Cancer, for instance, has undoubtedly become more prevalent since ladies took to wearing short skirts. There has been a marked increase since motorcars came into general use. A distinct increase has followed the introduction of wireless telegraphy. There is more cancer now than there was before people went to the moving pictures. There is much more cancer among females to-dav than before women had the vole. The use of electric light in the home also has been accompanied by a great illcrease in cancer. It is obvious, the Doctor points out, that concentration on preserved foods overlooks many other important factors accompanying tlit* spread ot this maligna id disease.

“Most parents love flmir children, but most parents love them the wrong way. The idea of a mother taking to her boy’s bed a clip of tea, when he should he taking the cup of tea to her bed.” Thus the Rev. Feildrii Taylor on the habit of late rising, particularly the late rising of boys and girls'. He told his Health Week audience in Wellington that this sort of bringn up produced a weak race, and that men worked much less hard in New Zealand than thev did in England 30 or 40 years ugo. Lying in bed was a rotten habit, and excessive attendance at indoor amusements was another. He had seen a hoy too blase to look at a picture show for more than a quarter of an hour. That boy had had too much amusement. A pwlure show twice a year was enough for it bov, t*«»r tit on ho would appiwinto if.