HERE AND THERE

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 23, 27 January 1940, Page 18

HERE AND THERE

Assistance Needed.

The women's auxiliary of the V.M.C.A.;. boys' department is. holding a street day appeal 6n Wednesday next, January 31, in support of the boys' work programme of the association. Despite the uncertain conditions which lie ahead it is felt that the Y.M.CA.'s endeavours on ' behalf of the youth of the city are even more important today x than ever and the members of the boys' auxiliary are hoping that their effort next week will meet wtih a large measure of public support. Unfortunately, at the . present time' quite a number of lady workers are not available, many being absent from the city on holiday. Accordingly the V.M.C.A. auxiliary wouid be grateful for offers of help from those who would be willing to assist actively with the collection boxes on Wednesday next. Such offers should be made at the V.M.C.A. office preferably not later than Monday afternoon. Soviet Wives' New Duties. "Izvestia," organ of the Soviet Government, 'recently reported that .250,000 wives of railway workers were beginning to learn their husbands' jobs "in case of war," reports the "Christian Science Monitor." Many anxious houser wives formed lines at stores to purchase supplies and foodstuffs, especially sugar. The demand was greatly increased by army manoeuvres in Poland. Dutch ..Cheese Market. Alkmaar, the centre of the Netherlands cheese industry, has a most exciting market every Friday morning, states a correspondent in the "Christian Science Monitor." The round orange and red cheeses are tested and weighed arid packed on barges to be distributed by land and, sea. The cheeses are carried on "biers" by men in white suits with brightly painted straw hats. Each carrier wears the colour of his group—blue, yellow, green, or red. The slightest concussion will send the cheese balls bounding over the pavement so the carriers have to be very skilled men who, as they shamble along, keep up a fire of warning shouts cautioning onlookers to make way for the load. They sling the biers, weighing from three to four hundredweight, from their shoulders. ■ When the market is over one bier ' placed on another makes an excellent I seesaw much appreciated by the chil[dren. , .... , . .' .:: .. . •...