Oddments

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 May 1949, Page 4

Oddments

Man creates the evil he endures. — Southey. An imperfect £1 Bank of England note, which had one square inch at the right-hand edge completely blank, turned up in a bank in Greenock, on the Firth of Clyde, recently. The odds against such an occurrence are reckoned at 60,000,000 to one. As the note had both serial numbers it is legal tender. * « $ * *

It is proudly claimed on behalf of a garment shown at a fashion show in London that ‘the design was based on the only scientific -survey of figure shapes ever undertaken, when 22,000 women were measured over a period of many years.” That, of course, must be a great improvement on the methods of the darker ages, when just one woman was measured and a dress was made that fitted her. — Manchester Guardian. $ * * $

A Greymouth correspondent, “Polly Ticks,” supplies the following:— Old Mother Hops went to the shops To get her old man an egg. But when she got there The shops were quite bare, So she still has to go round and beg. She went to the grocer’s for apples

and cheese, But found them tied up with the

LM.D.’s. She collected her pension for clothing and rent, But, alas and alack, on food it all went! $ « « « « A correspondent writes to the London Daily Telegraph: When I was in Paris last year I visited a little boy who was a patient in the Hospital des Enfants Malades Necker. There the risk of spreading infection has been reduced to a great extent. The large, lofty wards have a broad central passage, on either side of which are 7ft high, glass-walled cubicles. Each child has a cubicle containing a large window, washbasin, bed, locker and chair. Patients can see the whole ward through the glass partitions. Visitors were allowed for one hour daily. Surely this system should be adopted in future hospital building, especially in children’s wards, where .infections can spread so easily. -—The Seeker