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Dunstan Times, Issue 2676, 28 July 1913, Page 8

Japanese soldiers are nearly all gymnasts, and every barracks has a gymnasinm. So well trained are they that in less than half a minute they can scale a wall 14ft high by simply jumping on each other’s shoulders, one man sustaining two or three others Women who obstruct the view of people by wearing large hats arc to be prohibited by law from buying a now hat for three years in tlie State of Texas, if a Bill introduced in the Legislature there is passed. Senat w H. W. Brelsford found his view obstructed in church, and brought forward the Bill at once. It seeks to make it unlawful for any woman to wear in church or at any public gathering any hat or head-dress having . crown or any ornament exceeding: two inches in height, or a brim more than four inches wide. At the end of three years offenders will bo_ permitted :o buy only a certain uniform type of hat. costing less than Bs.