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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7039, 29 January 1910, Page 11

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(Prom Our Lady Correspondent). LONDON, December 10. EXTRAORDINARY ADVERTISEMENTS : "Isaac Holt wishes to inform the public that he kills pigs like his father! "Man wanted for gardening, aieo to taie charge of a cow who can sing in the choir and blow the organ." "Wanted—a steady respectable young woman to wash, iron, and milk two cows." A WOMAN BUILDER. A weekly magazine has a short article about Mrs Henrv Pollock, of Cincinnati. This lady is quite a remarkable person in that she has not only designed, but has actually built the house in which she and her husband live. It is of wood on. concrete, and is built to withstand earthquakes. The only things in the construction of the house that she did not do were the plastering and plumbing. WORTH NOTING. Doctor Elizabeth Sloan Cheeser, writing in a- well-known daily, says that it may be when hygiene becomes a compulsory subject in the schools the public will begin to appreciate the evils of impure air. People will no longer submit to temporary; suffocation on a railway journey, or sit. imcomplainingily through a church service in an airtight building. Duluess of intellect, like cold in the head, is the direct result of breathing impure air. Half the stupidity in the universe is due to the shut window—the lack of ventilation we so foolishly 6ubmit to in. the house, the school, the church, the railway train. If statistics could bo collected on the subject, it would assuredly be found that the clever men, the brilliant women, the people of both sexe6 who are full of brains, energy, and the joy of living all sleep with open . windows, and do not know the meaning of a .draught. AGAINST LENDING BOOKS. A good story is told by Mr T. McDonald Rendle oin ■ the staff of "London Opinion." He, one day, warned a visitor against the charity of lending books, at the same time pointing out his own well filled book shelves with the exclamation: "There! Every one of those books was lent me!" RUSSIAN AUTHORS. Speaking of Turgenev and Anton Tchekhoff, the Russian realists, Charles N. L. Shaw says:— "If art be the indifferent relation, of events without ethical purpose, then here you have the very essence of art. These men record human, thoughts and emotions and the march of events as indifferently and as impersonally as the Recording Angel.. Their attitude is one of complete detachment. Although living tile lives of their fellows, sparing themselves nothing, willing to experience ail and to know all, they contrive in sonic miraculous way to rise from the mass a.nd to get an accurate perspective, of the 'millieu' in which they are-placed, which at times is almost uncanny..

"To read the authors of Russia is to get a new outlook on life; to see it on the one hand in all its Mdeousness, but on the other to get a true perspective of it, .and. above all, to realise that the men. 'and women of to-day are onily just emerging from the brute stage into fulness of humanity." -

PAID MOTHERS. The distressing question of providing for young widows left, with little children, almost destitute, has been solved in a way that deserves much success in Scotland. '

As an experiment, 'and instead of insisting that the children, if there' are more than one or two, be sent to a svorkh'ousei, ,it has been decided that widows shall be constituted guardians of l ,hoir own children and paid for this, andor the same rules as. if they were strangers. A lady inspector calls regularly and the children's health is well Looked after. AN EMPEROR'S DELIGHT.

Buttons, we ore told, are, when he's chosen his uniform for the day, one of the Kaiser's most amusing peculiarities.' Huge sets of drawers are literally crammed with' buttons of every conceivable character, and the Kaiser spends many of his happiest moments in the pastime of selecting these. He sits, going delightedly through the myriads of buttons that vie with each other in their beauty, placing those he fancies material of the uniform to be worn, to determine their suitability. When the momentous' decision has been made, the Imperial tailor is called' in, the alteration is a,coomplishod, and William 11. goes forth to his varying daily duties. GERMAN DOCTORS. . A couple of scientific men point out the fact that Germany is literally overrun with doctors. There is one to every 2000 people. It is, said that Germane are growing more sickly' with the advance of their civilisation and the pressure of their industrial development, and also that they are becoming more fearsome on the subiect of their health. The •number of imaginary complaints has increased tenfold in the last twenty years. The birtih-rate, however, continues to increase. A DELIGHTFUL PRESCRIPTION. An eminent physician is prescribing for his young women patients a delightful medicine of pure chocolate for the complexion. There is more in this than appears to the eye. however. As food the chocolate holds beneficial qualities, but the secondary reason is that for which the doctor recommends it to be taken without stint. It makes the consumer so thirsty that she wants to drink a great quantity of water, and it is water that is the best medicine in tho world for a bad complexion. No less than twelve tumblerfuls of water daily are considered absolutely neceessary to keep the body thoroughly cleansed inwardly and in good working order. The body itself requires one and a half quarts to supply its own waste without taking into consideration the cleansing demands. MANNEQUINS CINEMATOGRAPHED. Prom the Paxis " Daily Mail " comes news of a costume promenade held in the Bois earlv yesterday morning, when, posing as fashionable ladies in costly fur and hats, for the benefit of a cinematogranh company a troupe of dressmakers' models disported themselves. They were driven up in luxurious motor-cars, then alighting, they greeted each other gaily and strolled to and fro. When the operator whistled they repeated the' promenade. All went well, we are told, while the models were being photographed in furs, but when these were taken and the furs had to be discarded while their indoor frocks underneath were photographed, the cold was so intense that the halffrozen models were glad to return to work. There are twenty-eight towns in India with a population of over 100,000. . -