Oddments

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1947, Page 6

Oddments

Mr Nash complains that too much sugar is used in beer. He makes no reference to the quantity used in acid drops.

On show, now, in Colchester and Essex Museum ... a lemonade bottle with a glass marble in the top. Once these bottles were sold by the thousand, but the museum had to make inquiries all over Britain before finding one. Last Wednesday night was generally conceded to be the stormiest experienced on the West Coast so far this winter. One elderly Greymouth resident survived it the hard way. Apparently as a result of a celebration, he spent the night lying in a swamp at the southern end of the town and on being “rescued” the next day required medical care. However, he survived his self-imposed ordeal. « '<*. $ #

From time to time I have heard of men having what they call hangovers. These are apparently acquired through looking upon the wine when it is red or the froth when there is any. I gather also that there are multifarious reputed cures for hangovers, most of which are, I regret to say,, alcoholic in nature. From the words of various experimenters in this direction, I cannot escape the conclusion that the cure is usually worse than the disease.

Right up to yesterday I hajj thought that hangovers were tiresome, painful affairs upon which many a weekend has been lost and nothing gained. But then a colleague announced that he had found a real use for hangovers. Taking one of them out to golf on Sunday, he couldn’t keep his head up, so he simply had to keep his head down. This being a cardinal rule in golfing, he played a really clinking round, surprising all. —The Seeker