NEAR AND FAR

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 56, 28 October 1931, Page 2

NEAR AND FAR

Trees Cleared by Vacuum Cleaners. Ordinary vacuum cleaners are being employed to'clear land of tree stumps. The new method was devised by experts of the State College of Washington. The cleaner is used to supply forced draft in burning the stump. The dust bag is removed and a distributor is snbstituted, to which lengths of air hose are attached. The stump is bored with several horizontal auger holes 8in to 30in from the roots, and a fire is started with kindling and oil. The blow torches finish fhe job quickly, an average stump taking only ten hours to burn instead of several days by other methods. Tests haVe_; convinced experts and practical faasiP ers that the method is efficient. Nine Rules of Life. A competition in Sweden has resulted in the following best nine "Rules of Life," states a press correspondent in Stoekholm: (1) Forget unpleasant things as quickly as possible. (2) Learn the art of being pleasant to otbers and don't be sparing .in kind words. (3) Never expect too mueh of your friends. (4) Never make great demands npon others. (5) Listen patiently while others complain, but never complain yourself. (6) Master your moods and your nerves. (7) Show everybody that you trust them as long as you have no reason not to. (8) Do what you can to show that you share the sorrows and joys of others. (9) Never provide an occasion for an apology for yourself. Forgivenness may be a kind of reconciliation, but it is humiliating. Surprise Find in Bed. Charles Stewart (22), who was found asleep in their bed by people whe returned home unexpectedly from a holiday, was at Leeds sentenced to three months hard labour for being on enclosed premises at night for an unlawful purpose. He had eiiI tered by a partly opened windoW, and provided himself with a good supper from food found in the larder. Stewart, a native of Newcastle-ori-Tyne, admitted a previous sentence of three months on a housebreaking charge. ' Open Windows. "I was brought up to sleep with the window open, and had about a cold a month through the winter. Since I married, my bedroom window is shut in cold weather, and I only get about two colds a year," writes Mr. J. B. S. Haldane, the biologist, in the Daily Express. "Of course, when a numb'er of people sleep in oiie room the windows must be kept open. If this is not done any one suffering from a great variety of diseases, ihcluding* diphtheria and cerebro-spinal meningitis will give it to others. "But except in over-crowded sleeping quarters, or in hot weather, I do not believe in open windows at night." One-armed Golfers. Many golfers overcome disabilities in a remarkable manner. After the two qualifying ronnds of the New Plymouth Golf Club's championsliip, two one-armed players tied for sixteenth place in the junior event with scores of 201. The winner of the junior title at Waitara is a youth who suffers from the effeets of infantile paralysis in his legs, and sometim.es uses a bicycle on which to go round the course. Russian Duplicity. A resident of a town not many miles from Woodville purchased a dozen boxes of wooden matches. He discovered to his astonishment that the top box was of British manufacture, while the rest of them were Russian, with the U.S.S.R. (Soviet) trademark. InnoceBt Man Pleaded Guilty. There is no novelty in an innoeent man having pleaded guilty, according to Judge Curlewis at the Quarter Sessions, Sydney, the other day. i The judge mentioned the ease of a man who had pleaded guilty before him to an offence and when the prisoner was asked if he had anything to say in mitigation of sentence, related certain | facts on which the judge advised him | to withdraw his plea. He was thdn | tried before a jury, which acquitted him without leaving the box. Dance as Worry Antidote. While Mr. H. Morrison, the Labour ex-Minister of Transport, compares the National Government's formulahunting to Nero fiddling, the Daily Mail discloses that numbers of elderly businessmen are taking up dancing in the hope that cheerful polkas, waltzes and tangoes will lead to forgetfulness of financial worries. Miss Belle Harding, a leading teacher, says: "They want something more stimulating than golf, and they can't spare time for exercise remote from their work." Complicated Marriage Arrangement. A special license, it is stated, was necessary to enable the wedding of the .Queen's niece, Lady May Cambridge, and Captain H. A. Smith, of the Royal Horse Guards, to take place as arranged, on October 24. For some unexplained reason, says the News-Chronicle, the banns were not read at Captain- Smith's parish on Sunday, October 4. The law requires that they shall be read for three Sundays preeeding the wedding ceremony. The church authorities declare that the only course therefore, was a marriage by special license. Women on Strike. The women of Barcelone, rallying under the slogan "Children Before Politics," decided to go on strike against their striking* husbands. Wives gave notive in hundreds of working class homes over the breakfast table that there would be no further meals for men who refused to return to work. The ultimatum was caused by the diseovery that the supply of gas was giving out and there was an acute shortage of bread.