NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 4871, 16 February 1933, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

“The natives of the Seychelles Island are a merry crowd and very polite,” said Miss C. A. Nieholls, of Auckland, who returned from the Seychelles by the Finnish barque Passat. It was an attractive sight to see them gliding about in the shallow water in their canoes, which they pushed along with poles. It was common to see “flappers,” dressed in white muslin frocks and bangles, walking about with heavy and miscellaneous loads upon their luyids.

“Punch’s” famous “advice to those about to marry”' was “Don’t.” it. L. Stevenson’s advice to ladies contemplating matrimony was “never marry a' non-smoker.” Charles Reade, the novelist, who flourished before cocktails, nightclubs, votes for women and the intellectual superiority of the “softer sex” were invented counselled ladies to encourage their husbands and fiancees to smoke all they wanted to. Daring advice at a time when women hadn’t learned to smoke and hated-r-or said they hated —tobacco. Ah, we 11,,, the world grows wiser everyday! And it is becoming generally recognised that, given the right baccy, smoking, so far from proving harmful, is often positively beneficial. Unfortunately, however, the right baccy is not so common as it should be —save in New; Zealand. There are four bramds: Navy Cut No. 3, Cavendish, Riverhead Gold

and Cut Plug No. 10. Not one of them contains any nicotine worth mentioning; all arc famous for their splendid quality. They are toasted! —and quite harmless. They don’t affect heart or throat and are as pure as they are delicious. —29/.