MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 19 November 1927, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

M.IVS AVINKING AVIFE

BRUSSELS, Oct. 4

Quite a pretty little double problem has been set Brussels Parliamentary and operatic circles. Parliamentarians, or rather their wives, want to know whether it is correct for one of them to exchange signs from the Parliamentary box at the opera with members of tlie chorus on the stage. They say it is not dignified to have cliorus’girls wink at you. M ere it a famous principal—but. ol course, famous principals do not do such tilings. Tlie chorus girls, however, contend that they have a perfect right to recognise one of their own members, even though she is sitting with the wives of members of Parliament, as, indeed, she is entitled to do, for she is one of them.

Her husband is a very “ Red ” member of the House, and when she is not singing she avails herself of her right (Parliamentary) to listen to her comrades and her right (operatic) to converse with them by means of signs. It seems now that the point has lteen reached when Madame must quit the chorus or the Parliamentary box will be deserted.

SAVORD ATTACK AT A SHRINE MADRAS, Oct. 4. A stranger armed with a sword and a lathi (cudgel) appeared at a pilgrimage shrine in Hvderhad. was treated with the customary hospitality by the pajari (keeper of the shrine), and joined in the worship. Next day. when the pajari talked with a woman, the stranger attacked the woman with his lathi, and "hen the pajari intervened, he drew his sword and cleaved the paiari’s skull. Tlie man then decamped.

Despite his injuries the pajari retained consciousness ant} was (akeri to hospital,