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Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 90, 15 April 1908, Page 5

A duty you.owe your family. Get rid of that irritability after, meals. Pearson's Pepto-chlor curves indigestion, i ■■"'■ 4

Sir John Gorst tells' spine interesting stories of Sir George Gr^y in,his newl)oqk, "New Zealand,3^6,visited." The following glimpse of ''the great Pro-Consul" is ye*y characteristic. When the war-cloud in pSe Waikato was .looming a little less black for the time being, a dinner was given by the Maori chiefs of Rangiawahia to commemorate the "King's" accession. At the request of the natives, Sir Jbhn. Gorst took the chair, supported by the King's^ sister and the : leading chiefs. Afjfcer dinner there were races and other athletic sports: " I ran a race with the General of the King's army, and was beaten by a head," says- Sir John. "The news of these festivities, when it reached Auckland, was received with great indignation, and one journal wrote an article saying that if ever a man deserved to be hanged for high treason, Mr Gorst was that man; but by the same post I received a letter from Sir George Grey expressing his approval of all I had done, and especially of the tact with which 1 had allowed myself to be beaten in the race by the King's General!"

For Bronchial Coughs take Woods' Great Peppermint Cure. Is 6d and 2s 6d. " •

Apropos of b.aths and bathrooms, an article in a recent Daily Chronicle, entitled 'The Tyranny of Washing/ was amusing reading. The article reminded one correspondent that in the 'Original,' that interesting collection of essays on health, manners, and gastronomy, "by Thomas Walker, police-magistrate at Lambeth," first published in 1835, the author gravely asserts that in a perfect state of health the skin cannot become dirty, as it possesses a repellent power against all noxious matter, and that, once clean, you can always remain so as long as you keep healthy. He experimented on himself, and declared that after six weeks' neglect of the bath he was as clean as a, new pin, I and that "health radiated from every pore of his skin." Will some aggressively healthy reader follow the ingenious Mr Walker's advice, and report—by letter only.