NEWS IN BRIEF.
Londons smallest hospital has 19 beds for in-patients, while it is supposed to serve the 500,0(1(1 inhabit ants of Kensington. Fulham, and Chelsea. “Be a glutton till you re thirty but. after that abstain from the fleshpots,” is the advice of an eminent physician who states that most adults eat too much. Handkerchiefs were formerly made in any shape; it was not until 1784 that they became square at the wish of Marie Antoinette, the tragic French Queen. With the turtles imported into England alive from the West Indies comes a supply of the only food they will eat, a special variety of West Indian seaweed. Most of the big public schools in England have waiting lists extending to 1927. Scholars are coming from as far afield as Peru for the sake of a British education.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2694, 12 February 1924, Page 1
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139NEWS IN BRIEF. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2694, 12 February 1924, Page 1
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