Untitled

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 19, 18 October 1926, Page 4

An analysis of 500 conversations overboard in Columbus, Ohio, on the street, at games, and in theatre lobbies, barber shops, and churches showed that men’s most frequent conversational topics were: —Business, 40 per cent.; snorts and amusements, 15 per cent.; talk about other men, among themselves, 12 per cent. The leading topic of women’s conversation was men, 22 per cent.; clothes came in 19 per cent., and, among themselves, about other women, 15 per cent. The chewing of gum makes the modern girl’s face as hard “as. the crockery of a railroad lunch counter,” said Mrs. Ruth J. Maurer, speaking at a Schoo) of Cosmetics in New York recently. "Human beings were not meant to be ruminating animals,’’ she declared, ‘end when they try it there is pome kind of a rebellion of Nature, and the muscles of . the jaw become unduly enlarged.” The Maharajah Jam Sahib of Nawanagar, better known as Prince Rangitsinhji, the famous cricketer, intends to experiment with the growing of rice in Galway, where he has bought Ballynhineb Cautle. He thinks that the climate is well suited to rice growing, which demands a moist atmosphere. A man summoned at Tipton (England) for keeping a linnet h in too spiall a cage said he bought it for te. ano would soil it to the Magistrate fc the same amount. The transaction •ms completed, the bird chirped merrily as it found its freedom through the open, court win dows. and the man was fined Is, tor cruelty.