MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 July 1927, Page 3

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

NEWS AND NOTES.

Oxygen is the latest cure for seasickness, recommended by German physicians. When the gas is inhaled for three or four minutes, they say, the seasick person is immediately relieved, and even nausea ceases. Explaining this remarkable cure, the doctors declare that the illness is caused by an anaemic condition of the brain — a condition that oxygen is said to remedy.

A married woman who was sent to prison at the Old Bailey, was allowed to take her month-old baby with her. The woman, May Cook, of Bermondsey, London, was ordered nine months’ imprisonment in the second division for the manslaughter of a young woman. She pleaded that should not be separated from her child, and the Lord Chief Justice granted her request.. He thought it would be best for the baby to be with the mother. The woman had swooned on hearing the jury’s verdict of guilty.

A Cornwall correspondent of an English paper, tells the story of a wedding-ring lost and found in a ploughed field. His wife, throwing away some weeds in a corner of the field, which was then in grass, accidentally threw away her wedding ring, with them. A long search followed, and the grass was burned, but the ring could not. be found. Next year, the field was ploughed up, and after the ploughing was over a strong impulse came to the husband to go to that, particular corner. He went, and at. once he saw, lying clean and bright on the top of the last furrow, as if it had only just been dropped, the lost wedding ring.

Old time dancing on village greens. Irish jigs. Highland flings and reels, are to be commended, but the ballroom dancing of to-day in crowded rooms and a bad atmosphere is obviously unwise, said Dr Adolphe Abrahams in a lecture on health at the Caxton Hall, London. Walking, he said, was commendable for its simplicity and inexpensiveness, but its great disadvantage was insipidity. There was a high psychological value in golf, probably arising from the variety of movements and the fluctuations of fortune. Physical jerks were a poor substitute for natural exercises; they were frequently practised indoors, where the absence of ventilation, sunlight and contact of circulating air with the skin were serious disadvantages.

Some lively scenes, in which women speakers were shouted down, occurred at the National Conference of Labour Women at Huddersfield. In a debate on the Trade Union Bill, Miss E. Bond of the Exchange Division of Manchester, stood up to speak, but another delegate sprang to her feet. “This lady was three weeks ago expelled from her branch because she is a, member of the Communist party,” she cried. “Is it in order for her to speak?” Dr Marion Phillips: Under the rules no person can be a delegate to this conference who is a member of the Communist party. The Standing Orders Committee met and questioned Miss Bond. A few minutes later its chairman reported: “Miss Bond admits that she is a Communist, and we agree that she be not heard.”

A remarkable funeral took place a feew weeks ago at Pandy. Monmouthshire, when the remains of Mrs Kosher were interred in an oak coffin containing two shells, one of elm and the other of lead, and weighing no less than 8 cwt. when empty. Sixteen men were required to carry the coffin, which was conveyed to the cemetery on a farm waggon, drawn by three horses. At Mrs Rosher’s house, Mr John Owen, a Welsh bard, sang hymns in Welsh, which had been composed by Mrs Rosher. There were no relatives at the funeral, but a large number of villagers attended. Mrs Rosher, a wealthy woman, was a well known philanthropist. Arrangements for the funeral were dictated in Mrs Rosher’s will. She was the widow of Mr Edward Rosher, who died 54 years ago. When they were married he was 60, and she was 16.

A man, his sweetheart, and a passerby figured in a thrilling rescue scene at Wellingborough, Northants. While walking along the bank of the River Nene. Mr J. E. Clark, of Kettering, was thrown into the water through the bank crumbling. His struggles only carried him further into the river. His companion, Miss H. Watson, of Wellingborough, seeing him in difficulties, plunged into the river, although she was unable to swim. She grabbed hold of Clark, and both were in danger of drowning, when a man named Moss waded into the water and. hooked his walking stick round Clark’s arm. Mr Moss then began to pull Clark to the bank with the girl hanging on to him, but when near safety the girl lost her hold and fell back into the water. Moss left Clark on the bank, plunged back into the river and swam after the girl. He succeeded in grasping her hy the hair and brought her to safety.

Two Stratford residents agreed to enter in the Winter Show samples of their blackberry wine, but a third stated that he had not been able to make any this year as he had been compelled by the ranger to cut his blackberries. “I’ll tell you what,” said the committeeman, a well-known wag, “each of you with wine give half a bottle to our less fortunate friend. Then let him mix the two and enter one bottle.” So it was done, but imagine their surprise when the bottle of mixed vintage ran in an easy winner, being pronounced by the judge to be far superior to any of the other entries. This is rather a better story, or perhaps has a more attractive ending, than the joke which a Taranaki man played at Kaponga not very long ago. 'With the hope of annexing the honours for home-brewed beer he purchased a bottle of “trade” manufacture, added a few raisins, and rebottled it, not forgetting to paste on his own home-made label: His hopes of success were turned to feelings of disgust when he found he was not mentioned in the prize list.