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Dunstan Times, Issue 3134, 11 September 1922, Page 7

What, in the feminine eye, are the seven deadly sins of man ? A summary of replies to a, c|iiest;ionaiire addressed to a number of English University students sets them doAvn in the following order: —Conceit, impoliteness to opposite sex, iieklcneiss, drinking, stupidity, iselßshnems, hiz'uwse: Ewule Berliner, the well-known millionaire Jewish inventor of the mieroiphoue or telephone transmitter, has announced that he and his son Henry have invented -a YveAwovitev ttymg machine \ov experimental purposes capable of rising A Oft perpendicularly from the ground, /Hid' of accomplishing a forward movemeivL The Rerliners arc confident that their machine, on which they have been working for nearly 20 years, will prove to be a practical success. Announcement of the work of the inventors was made after London had denied reports that Louis Brennau had perfected a helicopter and' captured the prizes offered by the British Air Ministry. The greatest step which has been accomplished; by the Berliners in the machine is the forward motion. This has been the stumbling block to all who have worked on such machines. Berliner states that in their machine this difficulty has been completely overcome. The Legion of Honor has just been conferred on M. Camille Robert, the son of the composer of the famous "Madelon," which was to the French troops what "Tipperary" was to the British troops in 1914. M. Camille Robert was not called up, but volunteered for service. He has undergone two amputations, and has already been awarded 1 the Croix de Guerre and 1 the Meclaille Militaire.

Nearly 80 miles of piping has been ,used in fitting up the 52,000-ton Berengaria to burn oil instead of coal. The mammoth ships has 46 boilers, and each boiler has been fitted with five oil burners. There are 32 oil tanks, many arranged in what were previously coal bunkers, and the ship can carry over 6000 tons of oil, nearly the whole of which she will use up in the trip across the Atlantic.