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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 175, 19 May 1916, Page 1 (Supplement)

YOUXG OFFICER'S ORDER. An English mill-owner's son had granted a commission in the - Regiment. He was down at Aldershot for Kis training, and after a month was leaving to go to hiR regiment. On arriving at his new quarters to take up his duties he was met by a bluff old colonel, who, seeing his youth, thought lie would try and puzzle him. H e said, "What would Iks your next order, .sir, if you were in command or a regiment passing over a plain in .% hostile country and you found your front blocked by artillery, a brigade of cavalry on left flank, and a morass on your right, while your retreat was cut off by a body of infantry?" "Halt ! Order arms, ground arms, kneel down, say your prayers," replied'' the young officer.

MONKEY KRKAP TREES LIVE LONG. THE TRUNKS OF I HE TREKS ARE USED AS BURIAL PLACES. One of tlic moist remarkable that our soldiers lighting in tho tropical parts of Africa will sec is the baobab or monkey bread tre.?. It is one of the largest and olde«t trees in the. world. Its trunk ranges from twenty to fifty fo't in diameter when fully grown, while it is said to Jive over a thousand years, according to A damson the great French naturalist, affc.'r whom it was scientifically named. Tho tree is used lor all sorts of purposes by the. West African natives. First of all, it hears a fruit a little larger than a lomon and rather like it in taste. The fruit it; one of tho chief foods of the natives, who also use tho leaves of the tree as a condiment. Out of the hark the Africans make ropes and clothes whi'o the huge hollow trunks are- u«od as hurial place. 1 ', tiie remain* of the. departs being hung on books fastened in the interior of me trunk for that purpos.\ SPECIAL SHKKP FOR POPES CLOTHES.

THE MOST EXPENSIVE WARDROBE IN THE WORLD.

The Pope has tlio largest anil most costly wardrobe in tlw. wliolo civilised woi Id. It is contained in three, largo rooms at tho Vatican, and a special body of servants is told off to keep it in order. Each day in the year has its appropriate garment. Tho white wool used in many garments worn by tho Popo conies from a special flock of sheep. Those sluvp arc owned by a family who have bad tho social privilege of supplying the Popes with wool fu'neo the sixteenth century. Tho lambs which supply tho wool arc blessed by the Pope in January of orery year. Many of the mint Magnificent of the Popo's garments, covered with gold ombroidory and j< wels, liavc not been worn for n long time, jince, indeed, iho loss of temporal power put an end to the great public ceremonies of the Vatican.