NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2686, 24 January 1924, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES

The London Daily Mail says llio London Hospital lias adopted a new (rentlimit for disfigurement. The latest rase was that <>f a yoiuij* Indy wlio was severely burned a--1 mil ilie face and amis. She was -Imply washed with a Imrueie lota.a and stearate of zinc, no dressings or bandages being used. Nature was allowed to complete its eitre leaving not the slightest trace of the burns. The method suggests wide possibilities for the treatment of many -.leill diseases. Mon- brain power i- wasted by inventors than by any other class of people. Sir John Dewrance. president of the institution of Meehnniea I Engineers, say.- that only one oiii of everv 10.000 me<-lianir-a| patini< is worth doing anything with 111 make it a lonilueivia I -ueeess. Mail', inventors, lie added, spend their live- and all their mone\ on iilras ilia! are rejeeie.l by one linn alter a not her. They do not seem 1,, lable to realise Ilia! they are wasting an enormous amount of brain power ill pursuing- ideas, wo! Uiless te. >m a praetii-a! point of view.s A correspondent of the M'aipn Dost, writing from Sydney, mention.Unit Hie girls, und .-mne who are not girl.-, have cut tlicit* arm eoveriags (dean out, and walk about bare to the shoulders. There is a. tendency however, to cover up part of the bareness by using bangles of various sizes, in the form of coiling sorp enls or otherwise and these embellish the more meaty parts. Some of the arms look quite nice, iu spite of the sunburn, others ought to be kept covered a t all cost for they are more like slims of beef than arms. Still, fashion has decreed it, and old and young respond loyally, if in instances foolishly. In. this, too, 1 presume Sydney is not exceptional. Musing on the vanity of women, I went to Manly, and there saw male surf costumes on feminine Idles that left most of the body bare. They were cut- away all down each side to the lower rib, so that each Adonis of the wave could display his beautiful lines. After all, therefore, honours are easy in the matter of sanity of the sexes.