ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS:

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17597, 9 October 1920, Page 2 (Supplement)

ITEMS OF GENERAL NEWS:

I PELTED WITH SAUSAGES. '=/- |»-;" My husband is '.very,- fastidious t about his .food," said a wife with ablack, eye when , giving, evidence > at ■ the . Tottenham' Police -yCourt. " When I - gave . : him sausages' lor supper he chased me round, /the room and t pelted me with.them.;'j

; CURSING THE. OAT..", jp ,A young wife asked a Tottenham magistrate for a separation order against her husband because he", swore ~at the cat. She was told, that the use of bad language was ho ground l, 'for such an order. ; *' But what am I to do?" asked " the woman. " He said. he -wouldifinurder me if I came here.".-. The magistrate: "If he strikes you", come 'again; here." The; woman (tragically): "I can't. I shall be a corpse by then!"- -_\ .., .' ;'

"SHY OP LADIES."

A Hartlepool husband who, after five months of married life, was, charged with cruelty to his.-wife pleaded that he was " shy of ladies." So great was this failing of his, he declared, that he left the women guests on -his ~ wedding day. Magistrate's clerk: "You attend football matches, and there are large crowds there." The husband: "I am not ■ shy of my own sex." The clerk: "Just ladies?" The magistrate: "Why m- the world did you get married?"

GOLF ON *A LINER. " A golf driving competition for the championship of . the Atlantic was held on .board the Aquitania in mid-ocean dur* ing a recent voyage. Walter Hagen, American and open champion, played T. D. Armour, amateur -champion of France. Hagen's first drive broke the machine, and the ball passed through a canvas screen window and came to rest in the barberjs shop. The drives of both players were' long that the judges could not see their fall into the water, and the championship therefore remains undecided.

PUBLIC HOUSES AS NURSERIES. Two former public houses in the heart of the Chicago stockyards district have been re-opened as a day nursery. Both had bad reputations in the old days. Wicker chairs, baby bath-tubs, merry-go-rounds, ' and - slides for children have replaced bar fixtures. gunrooms, diet kitchens, and a big playroom are part of the present equipment. The backyard, tho •' ' \ ' ■

scene of three murders in. Chicago police history, has been surrounded by a- rustic fence, and is full of swings and sand piles. The Association of Day Nurseries will extend the scheme.

A GOLDEN BATH. It sounds like i fairy tale that a citizen of modern Paris was in the habit of taking his morning tub in a golden bath. This curious fact was revealed before a Paris Court, and the sybarite in question is a Russian Prince named Elsscieff. Before his marriage to an immensely wealthy French woman, the Prince was acquainted with a Parisian actress named Mile. Brcsil, to . whom, it is said, he agreed to pay a pension of 60,000 francs a year. For some time past the p»nco has apparently failed to pay the promised annuity, and Mile. Bresil took legal action, and seized some of the furniture in the prince's private house, among which was the famous golden bath.

I THRASHED IN ERROR. A party in a charabanc near Aldershot, saw—as .they thoughta man fiercely attacking a woman by the side of the road. The vehicle immediately pulled up, ' and two sailors alighted, attacked the man, and left him senseless by the road. The woman was by this time senseless also. The charabanc party informed the police, who took the unconscious man and woman to hospital. When the man had recovered sufficiently to fie able to speak he said the woman was his wife and was subject to violent epileptic fits. The j struggle for which he had been thrashed j was merely an.effort to control his wife, a thing he had had to do on many psevio.us occasions. Investigations proved the truth of his statement.

A PYJAMA PARADE. A certain Belgian marquis has started a new fashion for men at Mariakerke, near Ostend. One baking hot morning after his swim he emerged from his bathing box in a suit of grey pyjamas, with butterfly tie, silk socks, brown shoes and panama hat. When, after lunch, one of the most charming of her sex expostulated with him for appearing in his " bed clo'bes," as she put it, he laughingly replied by explaining the merits of his scheme, for which he claimed ecouomv, comfort and beauty. As his chateau and estates lay in the devastated areas he had perforce to practise economy. The suit cost £1 instead of the £10 charged for a (weed suit. On dav he appeared resplendent in all the glory of pink and white stripes—a dazzling picture !

NOISY LOVE-MAKING. A new method of gaining a woman's consent to marriage was commented on at Marylebone Police Court, when William Bratt, a labourer, and Mary Ann Bur- | leigh. a charwoman, were charged with being drunk and disorderly and using bad language in Kentish. Town Road at 1.30 a.m. The _ magistrate asked Bratt and Mrleisjh if it were true they were going : to be married. " Well,'' said the woman, "We are engaged, but somehow wo cannot hit it together. I was annoyed at him keeping me out so late."" The magistrate, on learnin that the man's language was very bad, said he supposed that was by way of getting the woman s consent, to marry him. He warned them both that they were con- ' ducting their love affairs in too noisy a- ' way. *