NEEDED IN RUSSIA.
CORKS FOR BATH PLUGS. After having proposed the toast of “The King” at a travellers’ luncheon in London, Lord Marley said: “While we are still standing I give you the health of the president of the executive committee of the U.S.S.R.” Referring to his recent experiences in Russia, Lord Marley said that people still wondered with what to equip themselves for a visit to Russia, whether they ought to take revolvers or whether they were likely to be bitten by the Bolsheviks. “I advise them to take corks for bath plugs,” he said. “Russians have baths with running water, because they think our Western idea of sitting in the water in which we have washed is very dirty, and accordingly they do not provide bath plugs.” The Soviet’s best railway trains, lie declared, were better than the best in America or Britain. They included radio in every carriage, with cinema shows and dancing every night.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 107, 5 April 1934, Page 7
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