IN A NUTSHELL

Evening Star, Issue 19774, 26 January 1928, Page 1

IN A NUTSHELL

ANNIVERSARIES. ]7BS.--British Hag first hoisted ill Australia. IS23.—Death of Dr Jcnner, di*»' cqvercr of vaccination. 1883.—New Zealand Shipping Company inaugurated steam communication between England and the dominion. 1885.—Khartum captured; General Gordon killed. 1888.—May Queen wrecked at Lyttelton. IDIS. —Turkish advance on Egypt. The lime may not he far off when we shall have to offer rewards to cultured women who can hear children normally.—Dr Bernard Hollander. ,No hart ever panted after a waterbrook as a reviewer yearns for originality in a book.—Mr Arnold Bennett. Slogan 23: It’s mighty tiring to spring clean after a holiday. Let us clean jour chimneys and carpets; . it will help you. Handy men for general work. Dunedin Window Cleaning Co., 30 King street. Get ihe bag wash for your accumulated laundry. ’Phone 10493 Although the number of babies in Britain shows a decided tendency to decrease, the number of perambulator;! and baby carriages increases every year, according to one expert. A two sea ter light aeroplane, painted turquoise blue, forms part of the luggage of Lady Heath—formerly Mrj Eliott-Lynn—thc 5 well-known airwoman, on her visit to South Africa. If they talk about ladies, I’ll tell them the plan Of myself—to be sure I'm a nate Irishman ; There is nciiher Sulfana nor foreign ’ Ma’rn’selle That has charms to please me or coai me so well As a bottle of Dewar’s Imperial.... Mora wood, a new type of timber grown principally in British Guiana, is claimed to resist the attacks of »nv insect or any condition of weather; Its great use will be for making raft* way sleepers.