NOTES OF THE WEEK.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 272, 16 November 1910, Page 8

NOTES OF THE WEEK.

{From Our Lady Correspondent.) LONDON, October 7. "THE DAILY MIRROR" ON T TIKIS. "The Daily Mirror," on what authority one knows not, informed its readers on •Monday that "the Tiki is the seal of New Zealand," and inserted an illustration of a, Christmas card, destined for transmission to the Dominion, 'with the lucky tiki attached." CERTIFICATED BRIDES. In 1911, if the rich and influential food;, called the "Swiss Society of Public Utility for Women," which has done much good in Switzerland during the last few years, prevails, all young women, wed or unwed, will be medbally and physically examined, as are their brothers who enter the Swiss army,, so that Swiss bachelors ■will soon be to examine certificates regarding th?ir brides' health. The report issued by the society S\r 1910 in dealing with the suggested neV measure urges every young woman t> undergo the ordeal for the sake of hei self, her -husband, and Switzerland. FOR EMERGENCY OPERATION. . An interesting exhibit at the London Medical Exhibition, which opened on Monday, is a model sterilising chamber for surgical dressings. This consists of sealed drums which contain all the paraphernalia required in an operation, dressings, gauze, etc., and which can be bought ready for immediate use day or night. By this splendid idea half the trouble a surgeon has been hitherto put to when he's had to perform an unexpected operation in a patient's own home at night will be done away with. "THE FISHERMEN'S HARVEST." Somewhat curious decorations were those displayed at the church of St. Magnus the Martyr, Billingsgate, last Sunday, at a special thanksgiving service for the -fishermen's harvest, when fish of all kinds and lobsters ornamented the sacred jjlace. ' ONLY REPORTING. An amusing story was told by the Bishop of Gloucester at the annual /meeting of the. Eton branch of the Zukiland Mission, regarding a letter written .by a Kaffir iboy to a ibishop on furlough, who had worked for some time among the Kaffirs. It was a regular boy's letter, the Bishop said, and told how the lad had missed .his reverend friend, whom he hoped soon to see back. The postscript short, tout very telling, and in the custom of many English people, contained the main point of the whole letter. It ran, "P.S. —Am sorry to tell you that I have got no trousers, as mine are broken. Still, I am not asking, I am only reporting!" A RARE EVENT. A somewhat unique gift is that recently made by Sir Robert Harvey of Dundridge, near Truro, to a .Roman Church in Devon. Sir Robert is a member of the Established Church, but he has given a peal of bells, costing £1,000, to ißuckfast Abbey in memory of ibis late wife, a lady who bailed from Lima in Peru, and who was a devoted member of the Roman Catholic Church. SALAD LIKE MtFSIC. An address on salad making, a science that according , to foreigners is not understood in England, was given this week by a Mr. W. F. Giles, a Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society, in connection with the [monthly show of the National Amateur Gardeners' Association. ' The lecturer pointed out that the frugal Frenchmen and Italians use in their salads many ingredients which are cheap and tender, su-eh as the tops of nettles, shoots of hops, vines, and asparagus, and even pods of young peas, and quoted as an axiom the saying of John Evelyn, that the elements of a salad sSiould "fall into their places like notes of music, none being too prominent, but all in harmony. The ibest of the foreign plants to be chosen for cultivation, Mr. Giles opined to be the endive, witloof, dandelion, Imaehe or corn salad, Beße Isle ort American land cress, the finocchio or Florence fennel, celeriac or turnip rooted celery, chives, prache, and the Chineso winter radis-h. A DUKE'S DAUGHTER REMARRIED. A somewhat curious fact in connection with the scale of precedence has been brought to notice by Lady Chesham's marriage on Tuesday to Mr. John Mon-. crieffe. The bride was the widow of Lord CTiesha.ni, and a daughter of the Duke of Westminster, and toy this marriage, though it be to a commoner, is advanced several degrees in the scale of ■precedence, for she now resumes her rank aa a Duke's daughter, instead of as the wife or widow of a Baron. CARAVAN CRUSADE. A second caravan set out from Regent's Park on Saturday in continuance of the -health crusade in the villages and towns of the United Kingdom, being carried on by the Women's Imperial Health Association of Great Britain. This one is nailed the "Florence Nightingale, ,, and is splendidly fitted and equipped. It will be "manned" almost entirely by ladies, who will deliver the lectures and do all the work. It is to make a tour of the eastern counties, and the lectures, which include sucn subjects as personal hygiene, the hygiene of the 'home, the feeding of children, the cause of infant mortality and its prevention, food and cooking, the prevention of blindness in early life, dust and disease, the open window, and the

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