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Evening Star, Issue 18288, 30 May 1923, Page 2

The city engineer calls the attention of the residents to the necessity to keep their places clear erf all hedge clippings, cut grass, pieces of timber, and ah heavier material likely to bo washed into stem drains or on to gratings. Much damage is done by the choking of grat- j ings in the first stages of a flood by tins material. Citizens are also warned that i gratings should bo kept clear during a * Hood, but should not be removed, ihc < removal admits all sorts of debris into j tlv conduit, with the result that choking | J takes place, which increases the flooding ; also great expense is incurred later on in clearing the drains and conduits. ' An actor forgot his lines during a per- t foraxance of ‘Hamlet.’ Fortunately he t was standing in the prompt corner with c his back to the audience, to he whispered s to the prompter “ What’s the wordi?” e The prompter, without his book and busy s‘ with other things, replied “ What’s the n fiayl”- i