WOMAN LIVES ON SNOW.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 139, 13 June 1936, Page 4 (Supplement)

WOMAN LIVES ON SNOW.

| Howling dogs led police to a deserted | wooden house jjear Hull, Massachusetts, | Inside they found a woman of thirty who j told them that for a fortnight she had I lived oil nothing but snow. The woman, Miss Elsie Thurber, of Boston, had disap- ■ peared two weeks previously from a local nurfing home. A 'blanket she had taken with her was the only protection she had from the freezing cold when she was found. TO WORK FOR PEACE. Dr. Maude Hoyden will resign the j pastorate of the Guildhouse, Eccleston I Square, London, next Christmas in order to devote herself to the promotion of world peace. Dr. Royden stated that she had a plan in her mind for special work on behalf of peace, but had not yet worked it out in detail. Meanwhile, she will co-operate with existing peace organisations. Dr. Royden will be away for two months in the summer on a visit to Toronto, where she will take charge of a church for six weeks. After Christmas s'he will visit the United States to help in the peace campaign with which Mr. Lansbury is associated. QUEER TASTE IN CLOTHES. Wretched taste in clothes proved the | undoing of a thief at Osaka, Japan. A few j minutes after the Sogo department store | there opened to early morning customers, | shop assistants _ saw a strangely-dressed . young man making for the door. He wore ja check cap. plus fours, overcoat, spats, i brown shoes and carried a silver-topped i cane. His extraordinary appearance I attracted the special attention of one of the assistants, who then noticed a price i tag on the overcoat. He was stopped ' and questioned. It was found that he had I hidden in a cupboard when the store closed ion the previous evening. During the night lie had selected from the show cases all the clothes he was wearing when caught. And he had stuffed his pockets with any articles that took his fancy. A PAGAN WEDDING. Five couples have been married with full | pagan rites, including the "blood conj tract" in the hills near Budapest. They were wed in the open air before an altar j erectcd to Hadur, tlie ancient Hungarian I war god. For the first 'time for centuries, | a white horse was sacrificed to the war goa ' during the ceremonies. Its intestines were used by the pagan priests to foretell the fate of the five young couples. After the rites had been performed, the horse's body was burned on the war god's altar. The "blood contract," one of the most important rite;) of pagan weddings, was performed -by Taltos (priests) dressed in gaudy robes. In this, a vein is cut in the arm of the bride and of the bridegroom. The blood which gushes out is mingled to symbolise the unity of marriage. ARRESTED ON HONEYMOON. A couple who were arrested at Southampton while returning from their honeymoon in the Channel Isles, were accused, -at Guernsey, of theft. They were Eric William Xoel Evans, aged 26. of Quarry Dene Farm, Kirk, Deighton, Wetherby, Yorks, an advertising copy agent, and his wife, Constance, aged 25. They pleaded not guilty to charges of stealing from a bed-j room in a Guernsey boarding house a gold 1 watch and ring and gold muff chain, belonging to Mr. and Mrs. Wigmore, and were remanded on bail. It was stated that the Wigmores went to Sark, and on their return found the articles missing. When the Evans left the island their luggage was searched without result, but on arrival at Southampton it was alleged that various articles were found on Evans. Evans said lie bought a watch and ring from a man lie met in St. I'eter Port.