Oddments

Greymouth Evening Star, 29 September 1947, Page 4

Oddments

Apparently the women of East Angus, Quebec, haven t the light to sun bathe in their own backyards in shorts. Of. course if they are fully clad” it is quite all right. It all started when, a local resident protested to the municipal council because the police told his wife, wearing shorts on her own property, to dress more modestly. The council upheld the police. Under the provincial law, the wearing of shorts m public places, except on the beach, is illegal, but there have been few instances in which a person was -admonished for wearing them m private. $ *

An argument not so far advanced by the champions of our presentday diet in the recurrent calory discussions is.suggested by the ence of one who recently sailed out of the Manchester Ship Canal m a merchantman bound for South America, says an English commentator A handful of passengers included the inevitable proportion that takes a stoical pleasure in announcing at tpe start that they are the world s worst sailors, succeeding thereby in disurbing another 50 per cent, who are not sure of themselves; and forecasts of liesvy weather on the first day out did not help matters. Forecasts proved to be only too true and for some days passengers kept to their cabins. Only when the trip was as good as over did the fact emerge that not a single passenger had' been seasick. Then, at dinner one night, the captain gave a possible explanation. ‘Nowadays, going out, a seasick passenger is almost unknown,” he said, “and the theory is that out'diet has made them proof against the malady. But, coming home, it is a very different story—then our passengers are American and people used to living up to American standards of rich feeding.” —The Seeker