NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 150, 26 June 1937, Page 28 (Supplement)

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

UP THE BARBER'S POLE. An announcement over a hairdresser's shop in Japan reads: "English hairs dressing—shaves and waves—brush and wash up—heads cut—beards razed — corns cropped—hands manured." SURPRISE FOR FIREMEN. Firemen were wielding a hose at one of the stations in Vancouver, British Columbia, when suddenly a trout shot out of the nozzle. The fish, which was six inches long, was dead. All the firemen present declare that the story is authentic. OPERATION ON ORANG-OUTANG. Lottie, the orang-outang at Cologne Zoo, has been successfully operated upon for appendicitis. Professor von Haberer, the head surgeon at the University Clinic, performed the operation. He removed a quantity of iron filings from Lottie's appendix and she is, now rapidly recovering. ELEPHANT GRABS BUS. While a large elephant owned by a local temple at Tinnevelly, Madras, was accompanying a religious procession it suddenly threw its rider and seized hold of a moving motor bus. With great difficultly it was persuaded to release the vehicle. The elephant has been showing 6igns of madness recently, and on several occasions it has thrown its mahout (rider) and got out or control. Now it is kept chained by all four legs. A strong guard of police has been posted in the village in case the animal should break free and run amok. LUCKY FASHIONS. Women will wear their clothes "inside out" on the Riviera this spring, according to a leading fashion designer in Monte Carlo. The seam of coats and dresses will make their wearers appear as if they had inadvertently put them on inside out, it appears. Gloves also will be made to give this effect, and stockings will be worn with the seam outside. Gamblers at the "tables"' have for many years cherished the belief that to put on any article of clothing inside out would bring them luck, and a connection between this superstition and the new mode is drawn by some of the residents there. GRANDMA AT THIRTY-FOUR!

A Gravesend woman of 34 has just become a grandmother, and her two-year-old son an uncle! She is Mrs Clare Medhurst. of Dickens Road, Denton, whose daughter of 17. Mrs. Mary Prior, of Infield Street, Gravesend. has given birth to a daughter. Peter. Mrs. Medhurst's baby, is just two. She has four other children. Her husband is hoping somebody will celebrate the occasion by giving him a job. He has not worked for three years. CATS TAKEN TO BED. "My husband keeps 20 cats, and allows them to sleep in the bed," complained a wife who applied for a separation order at Caversham Police Court. near Reading, England, after 23 years' married life. The husband retorted that his wife a-dored thp cats, and that he had to take them out of the bed himself. I&e said he needed the.eats to keep down the rats. "Our married life has been a happy one," he told the Court. The magistrates refused to make the order, which was sought on the ground of. alleged cruelty, but advised the husband to get rid of the cats.

ITEMS OF INTEREST IN PASSING.

STRIP-TEASE REVERSED

Strip-tease in reverse may soon be a Broadway hit, now that strip-tease is doomed. Ninoteen-year-old Jan March, of .New York, ex-business girl and artists' model, is its inventor. She says that if other girls can undress for art's sake, then she can dress for it. "This is the way I start my act," she explained, appearing totally naked. "You see," she said, unnecessarily, "I am totally nude. Definitely! I come out in front of the audience like this. Then I slip on my black panties, then the belt, and then black stockings. Gradually I'm dressed, and begin putting on coats, and' I keep on putting on coats until the audience begins to moan." "She does it all for art," interposed Sam Burger, Broadway promoter, who put oh such turns as John Dillinger's father, Jack Diamond's wife, and the whole Hauptmann jury.