Oddments

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 October 1948, Page 4

Oddments

Concocting a nightcap for himself, a local householder picked up the baby’s formula in the confusion and built it up with brandy. Claims he slept like a child.—Stratford BeaconHerald. « # * * * A constable giving evidence in a Liverpool court against three coloured men charged with attacking him, said unemotionally: “I drew my baton and struck all three. This had a quietening effect.” * « * *

A leading shirtmaker says that buttons that laundries can’t tear off shirts have already been invented. Had you noticed? Anyway, the announcement suggests a number of other gadgets that would make the machine age a smoother one to live in. Such as:

’Phones that can’t ring while you’re in the bath. Auto horns that, won’t toot goodbye as guests leave a house at 3 a.m. Typewriters that won’t write drivel! —Christian Science Monitor, s: * W

The scarlet tunics of the Brigade of Guards will have one more public airing this year—weather permitting — when the King opens Parliament again on October 26. The route will be lined by Guards in full dress and a guard of honour will be mounted in Parliament Square. Some of the younger men will probably be seen wearing sergeants’ stripes, yet taking their orders from older men without any stripes at all. Guards’ tunics, all made before the war, are handed out to the men they fit best. If badges of rank were to be changed round, they would leave their marks on the cloth underneath. —The Seeker