NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1844, 19 June 1920, Page 12

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

FIZZ BATHS. A new device has .been added to the amenities of Harrogate, in the. shape of an Aeration bath, which produces the sensation of lying in a bottle oh lemonade without letting oif the fizz;: says the Daily Chronicle. The patient reclines at full length in mineral water; through which a blizzard of compressed air is forced. As a variant on the molten wax and whirlpool baths, this fresh excitement promises to add the new sensation which frazzled nerves require to shock them into quiescence.

ELLEN TERRY TOO NERVOUS. Ellen Terry was the centre of a sensational incident at the Shakespearean festival at the New Theatre during' April. The veteran actress began if scene from Henry TV. and required frequent and audible help from her prompter. Finally she broke off, exclaiming: “I can’t go on. I’m too nervous. f must read it. Please forgive me if 1 put on spectacles.” Having put on her glasses she resumed amidst the encouraging cheers of the audience.

HIGH COST OF A WIFE. Tlie high cost of marriage is causing general discontent in Austria, according to a Vienna newspaper. The cost of marriage now is 240,000 crowns for the bride alone, according to the newspaper schedule. This is equivalent to about £I2OO, counting the crown as worth about Lid. This amount would buy 32,000 crowns’ worth of drosses,- linen 44,000 crowns and furniture 104,000 crowns. In Austria it is customary for the bride to furnish the house as well as provide her trousseau. e wife 5 made a servant. A wife who said that after her marriage her husband took her to bis mother and made her act as a servant told a pathetic story at Tottenham Police Court. Summoning her husband 1 lor, neglecting to maintain her, she asked the court to grant her a separation order with alimony. She told the court that on their marriage three years ago they went to live at his 1 parents’ home. She consented to help his mother in the homo, but. before long she was regarded as the servant.

Mr Windsor (her solicitor): You had to wait on the family of eleven?— Yes. She added that for eight week* her husband did not speak'to her. He gave her £"2 a week, 85s of which was for his mother for board and lodging. Often she was left with less than Is for herself. Food was given to her in exchange for her services. The husband then called his brother and his mother, lioth said they did not want her to come back to their home. The magistrate granted the wife a separation order, and ordered the husband to pay his wife 35s a week.

PROHIBITION FASHIONS. Trousers with hip pockets of convenient width and depth and coats with tails, such as the redoubtable Mr Pickwick was wont to affect, are a feature at the spring fashions show for men conducted by the Custom Cutters’ Club in New York. While disclaiming any suggestion, that the new sartorial designs are born of a public demand for facilities wherewith to evade the country’s prohibition laws, says the Daily Mail correspondent, the fashion arbiters agree that the new models are receiving general approval, particularly from old-time bon vivants. Trousers likewise are to be cut wider and waistcoats higher, possibly to correspond with the cost. It will lie possible, if the new styles attain general adoption, for almost any man to pull his trousers on over his boots, or, if

occasion demands, reverse the open tion.

AUDIENCE OF CATS. Having lived as a hermit for many years, Edward Richard Pittis has died at Yarmouth, Isle of Wight, aged 82. He was born, lived all his life, and died in the small house, and had never ridden in a train or crossed to the mainland. He seldom worked, charitable neighbours giving him food and clothing. Most of his days lie spent on the seashore and rowing about in an old boat. In the evenings he. played tho violin, with several cats (his solo companions) seated on a table as an audience.

CLERGYMAN’S FATAL BOUTAlcoholic poisoning was returned as cause of death at a Taunton inquest on tho Rev. Charles Hurston, M.A., aged G-l, retired clergyman, who for the past four years had resided at Fordo House, Taunton. It was stated by neighbours that ho had been living alone for some time, and Itad drinking bouts every three or four months. During eight days prior to his death ho had consumed sixteen bottles of whisky. Medical evidence was to the effect that ho was found in his room in a state of alcoholic coma.