GENERAL NEWS

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 10713, 21 December 1912, Page 7

GENERAL NEWS

NOT PLAYING THE GAME. To encourage thrift among the members of a lads' club which, ho ■started in his parish, the vicar of Midhurst (Sussex) offered 25 per cent interest. He now finds the generosity is abused, and in last- month's parish magazine he states: —"Mothers of boys iH the town are reminded that the savings bank a t the Working Lads' Chib is intended, for the boys' savings only, and that to pour in the family savings with, a view to getting 3d in the Is interest at Christmag is not playing the game." DICKENS'S COTTAGE. ■ The purchaser of Dickens's cottage at Broadstairs, where "Barnaby Budge" was written, has made a curious discovery (says an English paper). In preserving the quaint andpicturesque timbered interior ho has .'unonrthed several carved -beams over three hundred years old, and also the original stops which led into Lawn House, where Dickens lived before going to Bleak House. There is an old dry well in the hall under slate slabs, now floored, a"d in tlio diningroom'a curious recess? in the wall has the remains of a windlass for hauling up goods from the passage below leadinglo the smugglers' caves, the shore being only forty-five yards distant. Tn the old ivied wall of the garden can be seen fragments of the genuine old willow-pattern china, beyond redemption or collection, WOMEN'S ODD EYE. Many London society women are now cultivating odd eyes (says the "Evening Standard"). The ideal is to have one eye presenting a different effect from the otTier. The latest artifice of cosmetics produces tintdifference by solutions and distilations. The odd eye i. s already quite a cult. Men who are not up to date j in this matter arc still being trapped ; nto giving the wrong reply in some smart acquaintance who enquires if any difference is apparent between her two eyes. An affirmative answer is now eagerly awaited and demanded by courtesy. The o;d idea that eyes should "pair" has quite c j "n.r- out. One trick ,# s to dye the odd eve s" +-Kat it shall .match one's i-ostnme. Drops of prepared matter are poured into it so tha ! ; ;■• turns the rooui«itp colour. Meanwhile the normal quality of the other "v" naturallv honomes more noticeable, and r'h°. whole expression is onVe" an eccentricity which baffles +l-io first observation, and so excites a „W- A"-,tW tri" 1 -- of t'-i= ~^.r,„+.; 0 U *n fh« rumil Of Ml" r,#l f l r»-rn nq,.;,,] c--".-W. - 1:..'- * n«o«;- "" ,-..,•„„ fVn't H,„ ..-,-.- r.-, <•-.- J.'-~ -/M r .. n -•" .->*-. '■■■ 1- 1v,.l U~ C,V1,4.