TWELVE YEARS IN BED.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 May 1921, Page 8

TWELVE YEARS IN BED.

LOXDOX MAN'S CHOICE OF LIFE.

After twelve years of lying in bed in a West End hold a man otherwise normal and comfortably fixed financially, now resents being annoyed witK questions regarding his strange case, and says: “When London is really civilised people will be able to do as they please without exciting comment.” Twelve years ago, when he was about 40 years old, handsome, with square , shoulders and bright eyes—the picture of health and vigor—he walked into a hotel in a quiet district and engaged a room. He has been there ever since. The day following his arrival a letter came for him whereupon the visitor retired to his room without giving any

He is well connected, and no clouds seem to hang over him. Occasionally his puzzled relatives visit him. and he receives much correspondence. He receives his callers in bed, and also answers his mail and reads much without leaving his bed. He has the newspapers ;ent up to him daily, and orders new books as they. come out. Once a month a barber comes and cuts his hair and trims his scrubby beard. “I am quite contented,” he said. “What could I do if I were up and about?”

Naturally the long rest has had its effect oh his body. The doctor says the bones have become so brittle through inactivity that it would be necessary for him to move carefully if he changed his mode of living. “Perhaps it is not correct to say that I have been in bed twelve years,” he said. I go to my bath every morning while my bed is being made, and on two occasions 1 went downstairs to the bar.” He takes two meals a day, which are served in bed, and he has grown nearly two inches during his twelve years of rest. He persistently refuses to divulge his real name, and says there is no reason why he should explain his lying in bed any more than anyone else should explain why they get up and rush about.

Co-operative marketing is making great strides in the dairy world (states the Weekly Star, of Montreal). Take the present development for instance. The New Zealand factories have perfected a scheme, a great scheme, whereby they carry cheese and butter in their own vessels to the British market and sell through their own commission house. This marketing plan, added to an excellent system of grading, will put New Zealand dairying in an enviable position. In the United States the dairymen are forming great co-operative companies with capital running into millions. The Dairymen’s League aims at nothing less than the domination of the entire dairy industry of the United States. In Saskatchewan the creameries have a model co-operative combination. The Manitoba dairymen are about to organise on a similar basis. A co-opera-tive marketing association was discussed at the Nova Scotia Dairymen’s convention. In Quebec the cheese factories and creameries have their own selling agency with export connections. In Ontario the United Dairymen Co-operative is revolutionising cheese marketing methods. The i dairy industry is not behind any other development.