NEWS, VIEWS, AND OPINIONS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 250, 19 October 1907, Page 9

NEWS, VIEWS, AND OPINIONS.

'The trne reason for the presence of j d -cigarette habit" is given by the | ZnceV'-'lhrough the medium of the j curette, tobacco can be consumed with ! rt„ less* amount of trouble—and tliat '. whole-secret. of the matter. The SLanoker must cany with him be£s his pipe his. tobacco in a pouch. Before he can smoke the pipe must be rirenulv filled, and even then something Z- T go wrong with the combustion, snoniaering may proceed irregularly, or eoß e difficulty may be found in keeping ■;, cgU" well alight. All these sources 0 f trouble are avoided in the cigarette. The cigarette is at once ready to Smoke, jj, anlv requires lighting, and, as a rule, 'esce'aßgit it burns regularly. The, smoter-of the cigarette reaches Ms aim nore "quickly and with less trouble than does the smoker of the pipe, and if ! smokingis .to be a soothing habit there jmst be nothing mentally irritating con- > nected with it. Our contemporary proceeds to five advice to those who have fallen prey to this habit. Let the inveterate cisai-ette smoker give up the readymade cigarette; let him buy pure paper id good tobacco: let hira make his just before he smokes it, and Je will find that he will smoke consequently fewer cigarettes, and be all the Wter for i*> Srich a method, if honciflv adopted, would make an end to the""clahi" smoker who, when he has jjeaiiy fenshed a cigarette, immecliateiy woceeds to light another from the exmring "ember, "and ends the day with an ippaSing consumption of fifty, cigarettes or-more. • Tie maker of hulls is abroad in the laid. At a political-meeting lately one (if tie speakers appears to have been HBipie'tely carried away by his enthusiasm. He "declared that "the British lion. blether climbing the pine forests of Canadi or scouring the Pacific main, TOrJii not draw- in its horns or retire TJiMn its shell."-He: also remarked casually that "the War Office was iron-bound ma-rea-tape.'-' . - ;. "Unsic will soon be known as the royal art. "Princess. Victoria, the King's second .daughter, is reported to have made herself an accomplished banjoist, ami Princess Patricia of Connaught is an aiqnisite performer on the light gmiar. Musicianly proficiency is not by any Means_.resiricted to King Edward's lonsehold. Bug Alfonso Is passionately attached to his Consort Ena; the Kaiser is notoriously fond of trumpet exercise; and the Czar would rather play second fiddle than do anything else in the world. ~ The fignres dealing with the provisioning of the Cunarder Lusitania for a trip across the Atlantic are astounding. The commissariat in connection ivith the ocean ..colony, carried by the Lusitania is a matter of no small importance. For instance, in the first-class department IEOOO pieces of ornate silver will be ntijised. Bat this is nothirg as compared -with the colossal figures of the Insftama'smara. Here are some of the things Jificessaryto store on board the teviathan beforesheleaves;?— ■S^^ fldnr i ' 00OIb " °* turtle mSSw'^T 8 * ; * 3 ' ooo oysters ' »,of tea i 50.000 eggs" OOOOIb !f Hotter (( So. fewer than 10,400 forks will be Wjji'.hy the passengers, U,SOO knives, .®M spoons.r and 50,500 pieces of crockIn. order thoroughly to cater for ™r ocean C olony it leen foimd ad . rafflfe to place contracts all over the Mcd Kingdom. . S deficate-looking youth of eighteen -{M&o the dock at the Battersea Co s tXondoll - one m-August. .Gmaderable sensation was caused when J* was made known that matrimonial ffierenees had brought him there. Yes, ™|OM,ae]dylad.was-- J[aa rried, and his on tie turbulent sea of fctamony had bee n far from happy. He seasick, in fact, of the whole ferness- The root of his complamt, ac- ' »t?? graphic solicitor, was "too The magistrates -. and ordered the Wet's dietary to oe changed. Harmen all aver that one of foods advertised is likely ,fo« the poor boy to a much Pater extent than ffiether-in-law. To ™<ancUa; one can" get too much "fed up" WTDoaer-mJaw. An American lawyer, Jto evidently does not realise the fact. has begun an' action to *?*?M to mother-in-law to return to the ground that he feels without her.

J^rrfflßhn^oly-paper-appears in ! £3X' A Se t,f ° n the « u «OTe«.; Anstralian natives, who, in JPf'« someiperseverTng philanthropy i*^ B^^''*llß wMte people whose the "black gfi||Sspe> ;] <»ntmne to dwindle in They nssi"glWms.of the pro--22S? Srfioni * aided by their •X™- 01 * of S.ST'** 114 the y a«iuiied the dispeople brought inThe writer of the artJgiaw that in thirty-years, a genE&£~£££l the. Australian aborigine StSfiSf"* Side * Aide «3«xtmc±ion goes on the extinethe indigenous plants, S|» for existence simi&jßM **£* between the races of 8 -' "^rTearsago rfT^Jf*'" vras introduced as a HUB • Ut !t llas unconquerable ** ■■■riffirf m ° f ite lack of an y use - and it now occupies five. ..-. . ~: ° C Tes as a useless incumbrance. «2ftT- 1 dr al '' pa:per a pp ro Ti ng the "British \f 0 J c but the *» EOef« Journal" does so, and « tw,? otmd3 ' corset must ■ittia. ir -L ced and must be weir ia ti'at ' H I,as " an advantage d »th^ Mvi^i olis the wei e nt <»* the «flT'tW : „v filßt thing a man natur- **«« toT=i nabout t0 tako active ex «- Bi§a |s f ™ his braces and replace ■fedvanfcL i.-°, r belt. A W- WbcK would a "end the deZ7j man ° f a form oi dre ' s *s ed ,/atireTy npon shoulder P* of put " an ei d'to the popuWMmg l m* This would be a I 8 '"* fe ' lrom the hygienic * >na °f -arm' t P aTtie 'darly desirable IS not -S^ ' Even persons who F-*'W»M~»L~i themselves **•>*&, m? d -'a>Mig& them as often .^'*to'i^4«3i?' mc de sirable frequency diffieolt in dresses j

To Berlin, it appears, the world of shopping women must look for the highest exposition of nice manners in the shopwalker. In. the Commercial 'Court of that city, an elegant gentleman who practises these maners, and who had been hastily dismissed by an old-fashioned employer as too polite, sued for a month's salary, and undertook to prove that' he had the employer's interest more at heart than the defendant himself. _His custom Was, with a grave approval' or a pretty and modest astonishment as the ease might demand, to pay compliments to the customers on the success of their toilettes. He would remark, "That is a charming hat, madame," or he would exclaim, perhaps, "What a- truly delightful blouse yon axe wearing? Do pardon my rapture!" This sort of thing may be, of course, mistaken for something else;.but he brought evidence, to satisfy the Court that many- ladies would find the atmosphere of the shop chilly and go elsewhere if they missed these little attentions. If customers had complained of him, as the defendant said, it must have been because he had failed to pitch his congratulations in a key of sufficient ecstasy. Even in Berlin, fine manners sometimes fail to please. But he wa3 awarded a month's, salary in lieu of notice, and the reputation of the German capital as a* polite emporium is established over Europe. ' J". I . s " Mr. Dooley' : has been, discoursing to his friend Hennessy on the Hague Conference thus: " What diff'rence does> it make whether th' navy goes to th!' I Passyfic or not? If it. Gogs at all it won't be to make -war. They've dumped I all th' fourteen-inch shells into th' sea. Th' ammunition hoists ar're filled -with American beauty roses an' orchids. Th' j guns are loaded with conf etty. Th' officers dhrink nawthin6 stronger thin vanilla an' strawberry mixed. "Whin th' tars go ashore they hurry at wanst. to th' home iv th' Uhristyan Indeavour Society or throng th' free libries readin' religiou = pothry. Mc friend Bob Evans is gohV to contribute a series iv articles to th' Lad-, eis' Home Journal on croshaying. Fr th' Hague Peace Conference has abolished War, Hinnissy. Ye've seen th' last war yell iver see, mc boy/ "But. is th' navy goin to th' Passyfic?".asked Mr. Henness. "If ye took a vote in th 1 navy on it ye bet it wud," said Mr. Dooley. 'That's the throuble about thee here movements f'r peace. We use th' wrong kind iv people to stop war. Instead iv usin' pro-fissors an' lawyers, we ought to use Eojers. A peace, movement that cud get th' support iv th' United States navy wud be worth while. Let ivry man do what he can in his own way. Let him attend to th' thing he knows most about. Let th' sojers stop war an' th' prorfissors stop talkin'." ..,-,:.. -"sj?^4s : --'" The most important discovery in the archaeology, of Egypt this season —which has been particularly rich in finds—is the tomb of Queen Tii, the second greatest royal lady of. the anpient kingdom. Her coffin, which is in excellent preservation, is thickly plated jvith gold. Queen Tii's tomb was deeply hidden in solid rock, and was found at the end of a long passage. The coffin is richly decorated with a feather patters in thin beaten plates of gold, -with the royal collar inlaid with cornelian and other stones. Owing to the coffin having opened by the swelling of the wood, the mummy was much decayed. A number of valuable objects strewn about the tomb indicated the royal rank of the mummy. There was a large wooden h\ah, richly plated with gold, which -might have been a, shrine door or the roof of a canopy over the coffin. A number of beautiful alabaster - vases—the tops decorated with carved female heads—were ranged around the coffin. These indicated that the mummy was that of a queen, but it was unknown which queen until the name of "The Great Royal Mother Tii"- was discovered on the coffin. Several beautiful pieces of jewellery were -.found in the .coffin. -Tii, queen of Amenophis 111., was the daughter of a Mesopotamian king. She was a powerful personage, and one of- the most remarkable characters in.Egyptian history.

A friend who has just returned from a holiday in a small village, as far removed from. a. railway .station'as. it is possible to be in Warwickshire, relates to the " Birmingham Post " (we are careful to give the authority to dissociate ourselves from responsibility for what follows), an instance of resourcefulness on the part of a farm labourer's wife. They were an aged couple, and illness had confined the old man to bed for many months, with little prospect of ever again rising, but the old lady was healthy and active, and tended the fowls and kept their little home together by charing and washing for their more fortunate neighbours. An unforeseen incident, bad as it seemea at the time, has really been the means of adding not a little to their scanty-income. That terror of rural poultry keepers, a fox, had •one night dragged a hen from its nest, and fearing the loss of the whole sitting of eggs, the old lady carried them upstairs, and' placed them in the warm bed with her bedridden husband, while she endeavoured to borrow a broody hen. Not being successful, the eggs were allowed to and care taken by the old man not to break them. The thirj. day they hatched out one by one, and were successfully reared. The idea, now i occurred to her to try the experiment on a larger scale, and twenty-four eggs were placed alongside the willing oia man, who was overjoyed at being able to assist his wife. Success rewarded their patience, and .when my friend, was leaving the delighted old lady informed him a furtbeT brood was due on Sunday, being-the third this season. . , .

The world's greatest sp?ctacular advertisement .was . the . illumination last month of the Niagara Falls by 1,1i'5,000,----000 candle-power, an experiment made at the instance of Mayor Douglass, of the American town Niagara Falls, the power being generated by the falls themselves. If the plan is approved, the town will buy the plant for £20,000, and operate it at a-eost of £600 a year. The batteries of, illumination consist of 50 powerful searchlights, equipped with 30in and" 60in projectors, operated by electrical engines of 300-h.p. The 50 rays, when thrown together in a vertical column, make a shaft 'of light -visible at Syracuse, 150 miles away. The rest of the plant consists of colour scintillators,7'which give the shafts of light all the colours imaginable. Thousands of people sought points of vantage-,to see.the illumination. The white light was turned on first, then the red, with a rose-tinted cloud of mist ahove it. Green, orange, blue, violet followed, then all were blended. A score of rainbows spanned the river, at the same time! ' If the illumination is continued, it is expected that the.falls, which have hitherto been attractive only in the daytime, will be visited by hundreds .of tourists at nights. A dramatic incident was the suicide of an unknown man in the crowd on the upper arch of the steel bridge, who poised on the bridge a moment and then leaped into the chasm. His body struck the water 192 ft below, and disappeared in the Tapids.