Oddments

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 October 1947, Page 4

Oddments

One good way to'teach a boy cleanliness is to dust his sitting-room.— Saturday Evening Post. ❖ $

Miss A. Tomic is stewardess in' a New York-Cleveland air liner. # #

Meeting for the first time in six years, two brothers, Luther Gray, of Ephrata, and Homer J. C. Gray, of Yakima, Washington, shook hands enthusiastically. The vigorous hand clasp fractured Luther’s arm. $ .-f: * * *

Mabel Lucy Attwell, who has been drawing cuddly children for 50 years, said at a literary luncheon that in all that time she has not noticed children have changed. But the attitude of their mothers has changed.

A Greymouth motorist has a great deal of respect for the hardiness of the hare after an experience which befell him yesterday. Returning from Christchurch; he ran over a hare, and considering that he had added to the family larder for the long week-end, he placed the, “carcass” of the hare in the luggage compartment. On arrival at. Greymouth, he opened the compartment and, much to his surprise, the “dead” hare jumped out. He was not too surprised, however, to aim a fatal blow at the animal, which apparently had merely been “stunned” when first struck. —The Seeker