A VALUABLE BABY BOOK FREE

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume XLV, Issue XLV, 3 August 1917, Page 4

A VALUABLE BABY BOOK FREE

Compiled in simple understandable language and edited by a w«U known doctor and infant specialist in connection with a highly qualified and certificated i&fants' nurse of wid experience, the Glaxo Baby Book contains 96 pages of just those hints and information that every mother needs to know about Baby. Write Glaxo DepL, No. 20, Palmerston North, for your copy. A native motorist in the Masterton district has set an example to Europeans (says the Wairarapa Age.) He was motoring along the Carterton Road, and came -suddenly upon a flock of sheep. Before he could pull up he had injured five of the animals. He immediately got out of the car and asked what value was placed upon the sheep. When told that they were worth. £2 a head he wrote out a cheque for £lO on the spot. Further he paid a man £1 to remove the injured ani mals, and another £1 to destroy them 1 The cleanest town in the world is said, to be Broek, in Holland. It has beeai famous for its cleanliness from time immemorial. The yards and st reels are paved with bricks of different colors, and kept so scrupulously clean that a lady could, in fine weather, walk anywhere in white satin slippers without fear of soiling them. Several of Mrs Malaprop's chickens seem to have nestled down Christchurch way. Recently an old lady sought the aid of the Magistrate's Court in tracing her hubby, whom she declared was living in the fl&'t city under a c onsutned name. On another occasion a harassed male came forward with tbie complex conundrum: "Can a man's <jle wumman take out one of these ecre exhibition orders against a feller icf .he ain't never been married to 'er? P. C. Webb, M.P., was. released on 1 Mond ay morning. There was no demonstration. Interviewed, he criticised severely the prison regulations for ordinary declaring that reformatory treatment was a farce, and that men. on remand were harshly dealt wit h. He expects to resume his parliame ntary duties on Fiday, when he will take the opportunity to discuss the prison regulations generally. A reception its to be tendered him to-night ;} by the Trades and Labour Council, and : he will leave for Greyraouth.