MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 December 1923, Page 8

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

NEWS AND NOTES. Mrs Ernest Bluzett, aged 38, was arrested for bobbing her hair while sitting on the kerbing at a street corner, and sent to prison for twelve days in Baltimore, U.S.A. A policeman, noticing a crowd on the comer, found the woman seated and industriously shearing her locks, with the hair flying in all directions, while tire spectators offered helpful suggestions. Large ragged holes in children’s clothes are easily repaired in/ the following way: Place under the hole a piece of stiff paper sufficiently large to cover all thin surrounding parts. Tack the material and paper together, sewing near - to the edge of the paper. Neatly arrange th e edges of the hole and tack these down to the paper. Cover with a damp cloth and press with a hot iron. Proceed to darn in the usual way and the work will be quite easily done. A darn carried out in this manner is much flatter - and will also wear longer than when the usual plan is adopted. When leather upholstery on furniture becomes sticky, it collects dirt and dust and is difficult to render clean in the ordinary way. To restore the leather to good order it should be well washed with warm water into which a little washing soda has been dissolved. Allow the leather to become perfectly dry and then brush over it white of egg that has been well beaten. To secure a good effect it is well to apply two coatings of the white of egg allowing an interval between for drying. When the surface is hard and dry, polish thoroughly with a chamois leather. Woman as a newspaper peruser reads the first page of births, etc., and the last of cheap sales and nothing in between! So once went the dictum, fortunately not true s in these latter days. A rural New Zealand woman, however, did once admit to nie that in her part of the backblocks where feminine reading is considered rather a self indulgence, newspaper reading is condoned Because it is assumed tnat the reader is dealing only with what is strictly utilitarian nt the paper, says Constance Clyde. In Manchester, England, the women have come to the conclusion that newspaper reading has to be learnt, and that many women live and die without having ever really mastered the contents of their particular organ. To rectify this, newspaper circles have been started. A group of eight or more women meet and each choose a subject, education, or foreign politics or housing, whatever happens to interest them, and at the end of a fortnight meet again when they tell what they have gathered on their particular subject or on others. .Some of the newspaper circles concentrate on foreign matters only. These circles are extending their scope because they are easy to run, and require no special study or book purchasing. The readers again do not take up any subject except that in which they are interested. Some confess to discovering that they never really read the paper before.

How a young woman became intoxicated by inhaling tobacco dust is told by Dr. R. L. E. Downer in the “British Medical Journal.” According to the account, a young man who was spending the evening at Shrewsbury with two sisters, aged seventeen and eighteen, induced them, “by way of a foolish joke,” as the doctor explains, to sniff up the dusty tobacco at the bottom of his pouch in the manner of snuff-taking. The effect was to make the younger girl sick, but the elder girl, says the doctor, was frankly intoxicated. She was talking incoherently and giggling in a fatuous manner. She could not move her lower limbs, and was oblivious to her surroundings unless well shaken, when she took some notice and answered questions. After the administration of an emetic and strong coffee the patient slowly recovered. An analysis of the remainder of the tobacco dust (the tobacco was of the cheaper type) showed 0.66 of solid cannabis indica, equivalent to one drachm of the tincture per ounce of tobacco. The doctor concludes that tobacco when absorbed from the nasal mucosa has a much more profound effect on the system than when smoked in a pipe. Cannabis indica is a drug largely used in India and the East generally. It is chewed, smoked, and taken with alcoholic drinks. Preparations of it are bhang, hashish, and gamje, all deadly drugs. The amount found in the tobacco dust was not a dangerously large proportion.