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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 84, 3 January 1930, Page 6

Two illustrate how great care must be taken by parents in the matter ot’jsupervising tlieii" children’s reading, the Rev. James Burns, who addressed a gathering of pupils at Dunedin at their prize-giving ceremony, related, the experience of a ministei" who happened to be in Christchurch on a lecturing visit. Before leaving the city his hostess told him that her girl, aged fifteen or sixteen years, was very fond of reading. Thinking that he would encourage her in her love of literature, he made up his mind that lie would give her a book which a girl of her years should appreciate. 'The story that he ,eventually decided upon was Ethel Turner’s “Seven Little Australians.” To be on the safe side, however, lie issued instructions that it was to be changed if she had read it, or if it was not to hetliking. Later he learned that the book was changed for “All Quiet on the Western Front.”

Bare legs are banned in the American holiday resort of Peekskill, where women promenading without stockings are threatened with arrest by the police.

The consumption of beer per head ot the English population before tlie revolution of Oliver Cromwell was ninety gallons; it is now less than a quarter of this.

Cats are to form part of tlie staple diet, of Turkey, by order of tlie President. Turkish authorities state that eat meat is tender and agreeable to the palate.