IN THE PAPERS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3140, 23 October 1922, Page 8

IN THE PAPERS.

Before the war the national debt o! the United Kingdom was 661 million pounds. To-day it is 7,654 million pounds. The whole of the difference is made up by war. To-day the expenditure of the United Kingdom is over 1,000 million pounds, and £63 in ©very £IOO is for war. A simple but effective method of dealing with aphis was shown a Levin Chronicle representative by a local/ fruitgrower. He gave his trees a liberal treatment of lime up to a height of 18in to 2ft above ground, and scattered lime freely round the base of the trees. Ho maintained that Hie insects lodged in the soil at the. foot of the tree in the winter, and the use of lime in this way killed a large ]>ereentage of the pest. Ho had got good results from this treatment. Why do men absent themselves from church P Mr S. J. Bartle (a railway man of Chesterfield), in a debate at Westminster (London), said he thought it utterly wrong the expect any clergyman to stay in a parish for five-and-twenty years or more and “give something fresh Sunday by Surg day.” “Now if they tried that at* Drury Lane or the Colosseum —having one ‘turn’ done by the same artist nightly for twenty-five years—they’d soon see what’d happen.” Lady Glonconner, who was married to Viscount Grey of Falfoden recently, comes of a family which has been closely allied with distinguished British statesmanship, which makes the present alliance all the more noteworthy. She was one of the three daughters of the late Hon. Percy Wyndham, whoso picture was painted by Mr Sargent, and whom the late King Edward named “The Three Graces,” and she was the sister of the late Bight Hon. George Wyndham, one time Chief Secretary for Ireland. Miss Pamela Wyndham, as she then was, was married to the first Baron Glencon ner, brother of Mrs Asquith, in 1895, and had three sons and one daughter. Lord Glenconuer died in 1920. Lady Glenconuer herself has literary tastes, and she has published “The White Wallet,” “The Sayings of the Children,” and other hooks. Mrs Alexander P. Moore, who, as Miss Lillian Bussell, was one of America’s greatest stage personalities, and whose death at 60 was announced a few weeks ago, besides being a, beauty herself, was an authority on the cultivation of beauty. Once she set all the women of America pin gathering, because she told them that stooping over the floor to pick up pins would benefit their health, and so bring beauty. How he earned a shilling tip was amusing told by Sir Thomas Lipton at a concert given by the firm’s Choral Society a few weeks hack. “When I was crossing over from America last year,” he said, “I was preparing to sit down on a, deck chair when a. parson came up. ‘Look here, steward,” he said. ‘1 want a deck chair put in that corner spot.’ I got a deck chair and placed it there, when he said, ‘Here’s a bob for you.’ Being Scotch,” continued' Sir Thomas, “I took it.” The most recent sensational transaction in Guernseys in America has been the sate of Langwater Foremost. This son of Langwater Fashion and Langwater Generous has been brought into prominence through the performance of eleven daughters in the Atamannsit foundation ait East Falmouth, two of which have recently become leaders in class OC. The consideration wais £4OOO. In addition to reducing wool freights from South Africa to Great Britain to Sid per lb, the conference lines have advised exporters that the following rates will apply to shipment® to North America :—To Boston and New York, scoured woof. Ifd per lb; greasy wool. Id per lb; skins, 52s 6d per 40 cubic feet, or Id per lb at shippers’ option. The freight to Toronto is id higher ill each case. Owing to the. fact that no income tax is paid in Jersey, the island has become so popular with English people that a serious housing situation has resulted. “Anglo-Indians and retired array officers with their •families are the chief .invaders,” a Daily Chronicle representative was informed by a. Jersey resident then in London. “The Bent Bestrietion Act does not apply to Jersey, he added 1 , “and landlords are thus ante to let their premises to the highest bidder. The island is at present a paradise for landlords'. Becently one of them advertised ai house for £4O ai year. A prospective! tenant went to see it. was satisfied, and paid a. deposit, A few days later he went back, as lie thought, to close the deal, and! met another man coining away from the house. The landlord laughed and! handed him his deposit hack. ‘I suppose 1 lie mao I just saw offered you more,’ said the disappointed tenant.’ ‘Ho did.’ was the- reply, ‘hut lie hasn’t got (ho house. Someone else has offered me double what he did.’ In some cases English people come to Jersey and buy property over the heads of the islanders. I know an instance of a woman who bought a. house for £4OO, and sold it shortly afterwards for £IOOO. Many Jersey folk who have lived in the same house for 25 yearn arc now under notice from their landlords, but have nowhere else to go.” Says a London paper: —The smoker who abuses his tobacconist when the quality or cigarette goes wrong ought, it appears, to carry the blame right back to nature. Just as vintages vary, so tobacco is now credited with good and bad years, and the smoke that offends is now, according to the expert, attributable to the fact that the tobacco manufacturer has been compelled to resort to the crop of a poor year. Of recent years, 1919 is said to have produced one of the best tobacco “vintages.” and pipes or cigarettes stuffed witli the product of that year are supposed to be uniformly satisfactory. The trouble is that by now most of the fine growth of 1919 must have hone up in the smoke of satisfaction. Largo red 1 posters have recently made j their appearance in Paris inviting persons apprehensive of mental derangement to take advantage of the Hospital St. Anne, where treatment is free and the patients need not remain a moment longer than they wish. The immediate result of this announcement was to increase the number of patients 1 in this hospital by thirty a day. Dr Touteuso and Dr Genil-Pemn, who have Government sanction for this scheme, hope in. time to remove the terrible shir that has been cast on lunatic asylums, and convert them into mental hospitals, to which patients will not hesitate to go voluntarily. Dr Genil-Perrin told the representative of an English paper that hundreds of minor lunacy oases have become incurable because there has been no institution where they could he treated, and the lunatic asylums wore simply prisons for the dangerous and incurable. “The overwhelming advantages of our system cam ho gauged.” he said, “when one remembers that hitherto a mentally deranged person only entered an asylum by order of the ’law. and left it, if ever, under the same circumstances. More than 50 as nor cent, of the incurables now confined in lunatic asylums could 1 have heen cured in a few months if proper hospital treatment had been available.”