TO MAKE MEN BEAUTIFUL.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 349, 15 January 1903, Page 8

TO MAKE MEN BEAUTIFUL.

H*MOW Establishment Where the „, Deformed and Ugly Are * Tramformed. i ' That men ought to desire physical beauty as much as women is the firm belief of two German merchants, who hare opened at Moscow a store in which, they claim, any man who is deformed or ugly can find appliances that will speedily remove all his defects and transform him into a thing of beauty, says a foreign exchange. This transformation will naturally cost him some irspney, but not much. If his calves are not well shaped and he desires to have them padded he need only pay ten francs, and if he is pigeon-breasted and desires the chest of a gladiator he can acquire that commodity by paying a trifle of tS francs. "We guarantee," say these ingenious merchants, who are evidently good judges of human nature, "to provided anyone with a first-class bast of Apollo for 63 francs 50 centimes, with an ordinary bust of Apollo for 37 francs 50 centimes, •with a pair of shoulders like Hercules for 25 francs, and with an improved pair of such shoulders, made of whalebone and nickel, for 75 francs." Indeed, a glance over the price list •hows that for 300 franca any gentleman who is at all laekimg in pergonal beauty or grace oan have himself speedily changed into a faultless Adonis.

lUfi Disappear m< Leave Ho Slam* A paper bearing the prosaic title of "Underladen Sailing Ships and Steamers," read before the Shipmasters' society by William Allingham, contained enough material to have furnished Clark Russell with a foundation for a dozen sea romances, says a London paper. The public know of some of the risks incurred by those who go down to the sea in ■hips. But one not frequently heard of by landsmen is that of "underloading when in ballast." The danger of underloading, Mr. Allingham pointed out, was hardly less great than that of overloading. Yet ■ailing ships and steamers proceed to sea daily with insufficient ballast, whereas an overladen vessel would be prevented from leaving port. The question of providing an underload line in addition to the present loadline might well be considered. In the period from 18fl0 to 1900 no fewer than 22 British ships disappeared while on interocean voyages without leaving a trace as to their fate. * Aa IminHtd &oH«r, 'An inquisitive commuter on one of the trains that pulled into the Grand Central station had his dignity, ruffled the other day by a facetious engineer. The commuter wore a golf suit of the latest pattern. His suit wasn't ruffled, hut his temper was, when the engineer took him for a bicycle rider. Mr. Inquisitive, seeing *hat the big locomotive in the yard was in some sort of trouble, yelled At the engineer a query as to what jwas the matter. His curiosity was satisfied and his suit of clothes insulted when the grimy engineer shouted back at him: "Nothing much; just punctured my tire. Got a pocks* pump with you?" limit o€ ■ ••tl*a. While the structure of the music of ■tridulating organs of beetles is extremely simple, they sometimes possess contrivances for varying the pitch. The general structure of such an organ is a hard surface covered with striatums, over which some other member of the body furnished with a rasping edge or area is rubbed. When the striated surface is divided into parts with finer and eoarser markings, variations of ntteh can j» produced.