Heard and Said

Maoriland Worker, Volume 3, Issue 77, 30 August 1912, Page 1

Heard and Said

That New Zealand is the healthiest country on th© face of the globe. That G. H. Knibbs, Commonwealth statistician, says there is only one country in the world where the death rate is lower than, in Australia.

That you can guess the namo of the premier country in one—it is New Zealand.

ffhat when we abolish the capitalistic industrial system and all its attendant evils the death rate will fall lower and yet lower to its lowest That deaths from preventable illnesses and accidents will become fewer and fewer, till they reach their irreducible minimum.

That hale and hearty octogenarians, nonogenarians and centenarians will be as thick in the land as the autumn leaves of Vallombrosa.

That the estate of the late Justin McCarthy, novelist and historian, has been sworn at £4§o.

That from this it would appear that there is not much monetary balm for scribblers' itch in these thankless day?.

that McCarthy's writings may have brought him in handsome cash rewards, but, like most men of letters, he was probably a poor business man and let the "ooftish" slip through his fingers,

Ihat anyway it pays better to be a. vocal star of eminence rather than the brightest genius of the pen ''that ever lived.

■That', for example, Madame Melba has signed a contract for an American tour extending from October, 1913, to April, 19314, for whigh she is goto close pa the tidy little sum of £40,000.

Ihav Jack Johnson, champion boxer of the world) is crediped with as many retirements as the average beauty ftftoesi,

New Zealand and Youfig Australia is that they lack reverence for old age.

That possibly they do, but yet New Zealand and Australia were the first two countries on earth to provide their indigent ancientry with a really decent old age pension.

Thai, this is a far better and more "pj act teal way of showing respect and irevereJiee for old ago than the British method of carting it off to the "\.-,irkii3." separating the old man from the old woman, and feeding thorn mostly on skilly.

That the International Bible Students' Q.inference in America decided to voM out of existence the "helt of Scripture" and "the lake c* fire and ibrhnstone."

That this decision tends to confirm the theological opinion now generally held V) the effect that "hell is cooling oil."

That there is a very strong feeling in Vwmgaliui that the local sculling wrack. William Webb, could deieat jEmest Barry, present champion -...•uiier of the world.

flint enthusiasts are hopeful of raising the necessary money to enable A\ ebb .to make a bid for tho championship.

That iiie Chicago Association of Dealers ia Barbers' Supplies is objecting to barbers being called barbers. 'That even if they are barbers, the dealers in barbers' supplies want them called by some other name. That any name will do, so long ua it is not "barbers."

That "Groomers of Mankind" and ''Practitioners of Head and Face 'Treatment" are among the "classy" lilies suggested to replace the comeuoh name of barber.

That a Californian admirer of Taft asserts that "Big Bill" is the "politest man in America."

That iie bases his eulogy on the ground that Rill recently rose from his seat fin a tranicar and thereby made room iter no fewer than four ladies!

That a visitor to Nelson on Monday, August 5, was astonished to find tiie shops closed, and on inquiry as to the «*i:iia learnt that it was "Spud Mon» day,"

That it appears that it was on the first Monday in August that the first