GENERAL NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 31 October 1913, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS.

ONE WAY TO DO IT

Smoking by women is advanced by Dr Arthur Holmes/ a Pennsylvania medical officer of health, as the best possible way of curing men of the habit. "Instinct should fight instinct," 110 declared at a congress df school teachers (the Express says). "The instinct of young men id to avoid anything that smacks of effeminacy. Women should smoke as a means of stopping the habit in boys and men, because men dislike doing anything that women can do. They feel that they are not sufficiently superior." THREK THOUSAND ARTIFICIAL LEGS. This extraordinary advertisement appeared among the classified advertisements in one of the German papers: —"Three thousand art;.' are wanted by the Government of a nation at present! in war. Estimates considered only from concerns who are able to deliver this quantity. Address Dr Richard Mauch, Cologne, Germany." "There can be no doubt that these artificial legs are wanted by one of the Balkan States," says the Montreal Telegraph. "The cold, businesslike language of the advertisement is as effective as any picture of Vereschagin in bringing home a realisation of the horrors of war."

THE MAN-WOMAN. An American woman has petitioned President Wilson for a permit to dress as a man, on the ground that-in male attire she can earn £3 a week, or more than twice as much as when hampered by skirts. In France such permits are granted by this local police without any great difficulty, provided a. substantial reason is shown for the application. Rosa Bonbeur used to dress as a man, and so did a wellknown writer, Mms. de Montifaud, who died last year; while Mme. Di'culafoy, tho explorer, grew to like male attire so well on her travels that she wears it on all occasions. According to a French , law passed in the eighteenth century, any woman growing a beard has, ipso facto, the right to dress like a man.