GENERAL NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 August 1913, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

A CHILDREN S VUEATII!-:, A Children's Theatre, a ~n.vau producing simple and bi'au'u'.d jeevto. be acted .by children Tor ehiHi < e, is to be inaugural-.'.! ri \"J; ren sine■-= season at one of the tres. The idea wars staved hy :U;*?s Netta Syrett, who, with Mrs IWpy Dearmer,. will manage the th'-:r>;! e. "We propose to giv.« eight ;<t;t;inoes of two sets of plays to be s;;-ie;ed alternately during the Christines lielidays," said Miss Syrett, ••and we hope to include not <mly fairy ,i v :d adventure plays, but also plays o{ < veryday life at the nurse;-y and .vehoolroom. We want the whole thin.;' ro be as simple as possible. For eeier.s we shall try to choose the most unsophisticated of children. The prices will be very moderate."

STRAWBERRIES ANT) PEPPER. The futurist has invaded the kitchen, and we may look forward to revolutions on the menu. Sueh is the news sent to me (says a London writer) by a friend wandering on the Continent. The other day in a Berlin restaurant he heard a waiter ask for 'Caviar and whipped cream," and the order did not seem to create surprise. There are funnier dishes than that, he remarked to a friend. "Why there was a gentleman hero yesterday whose favourite dish is mutton with Benedictine sauce, and Bismark herring with stria wherry ice is not unknown. Apples and hananas with ground' cheese, liver in absinthe, and roast beef dipped in kummel. are sometimes served, and the demand ■HPor such dishes. i& growing. This morning a customer •■■■would have pepper with his strawberries." But the writer was wrong with his last dish. Pepper on strawberries is preferred to sugar and cream by many London op--icures.

A FAMOUS INDIAN DEAD. Hiawatha, the last hereditary of the Iroquois Indians is dead. He had presided for many years over the remnant of the tribe which settled in. Ontario . Though the Iroquois are greatly scattered and number fewer than i 2,000 in all, those on the Canadian reservation are regarded as the head tribe, and the chief, Hiawatha, was looked up to as the chieftain of all the Iroquois. His successor will have to be elected by all the tribe because his only son, Prince Lazarus, is not a candidate for the leadership, since he, like many .other .Iroquois Indians, has adapted. himself -to modern civilisation, and at present he is studying, for the Methodist ministry. It was the custom of the Iroquois to name the chief's eldest son Hiawatha which means a person of miraculous birth; but the late chief's son was baptised Lazarus. While most of the Iroquois are now farmers, many of them have attained to considerable distinction in other pursuits and their reservations in Ontario are< well ordered) and show an advanced state of cultivation.

CARELESS WEST ENDERS,

The increase of lost property shows a spread of absent-mindedness and carelessness, particularly in the West End (says the "Daily Mail"). There were about fifty advertisements, a record number, of losses of valuable jewellery in the newspapers during one week, and many more were reported to the police. These included: —A case of jewels valued at £4OOO, six diamond 'brooches, three gold bracelets, gold and silver hags, pearl opera glasses, g«ld watches, painted fans. Valuable articles .have also been found) lately the Salvation Army waste-paper sorting depots in the West End, including three £5 banknotes, which were returned to their owners. In the waste-paper not long ago was found the .cheque-book of a large London' firm filled with cheques for big sums drawn ready for dispatch.

AN AMAZING MEMORY.

A blind girl, Miss Mabel Green, aged twenty, has written from memory a verbatim report of a sermon 'lasting three-quarters of an hour, delivered on J.nue 15th, in All Souls' Church, Langhan-place, W., hy the Rev. W. R. Mowll, vicar of Christ Church, Brixton, (says the "Daily Mail"). "After the sermon they wanted a report, and nobody had taken a shortland note," said Miss Green "so I went home repeating to myself all that I had heard. The next morning! wrote out 2700 words first in the Braille system (writing by means of raised dots) Ira three hours, and then on a typewriter in an hour and a half. The words came quite easily, although I was several times interrupted, and I had no difficulty jS in recollecting all the scriptural allusions and where they came from. I first thought of memorising sermons two years ago, and since then I have written out at least fifty sermons. Every week 1 am able to read the news for myself, thanks to the- "Daily Mail" issue in Braille." "I am amazed at the correctness, thought and expression in the account of my sermon," said Mr Mowll.