NOTES FROM LONDON

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7140, 30 May 1910, Page 9

NOTES FROM LONDON

(By Our Lady Correspondent.) LONDON, April - 15. SUFFRAGETTES—REAL AND UNREAL. Seven suffragettes in the stalls of the Sheffield Hippodrome on Monday night created a scene by objecting to a burlesque of suffragettes on the stage, and were quickly ejected. LEFT TILL CALLED FOE I Among many novel ideas that will be realised in Messrs new premises for the benefit of customers, is a playground on the roof of the building, where ladies will be able to leave children while they do their shopping. FAMOUS WOMAN EIFLE SHOT. Mrs Chapman, of Staines, has secured the world’’s record for women's rifle Shooting by getting 99 points out of a possible 105 in a competition of the South London Eifle Club at Bieley. Quartermaster-Sergeant Fulton, of the Queen's Westminster's, winner of the Queen's Prize in 1888, secured the same aggregate, but was beaten by ifrs Chapman at 500 yards, although he scored 34. points to her 32 at the longest range. Mrs Chapman's*rifle is a Lee-Metford, and she has won no fewer than 100 prizes. At the National Eifle Association's meeting at Bialey Last year, when she was the only Englishwoman shooting with the service rifle, her name appeared in the Alexandra, Brownlow, and Civilian prize lists, her scores being in the first-named 62 out of a possible. 70, in the second 30 out of 35, and in the third 67 out of 70, GERMAN WOMAN APOTHECARY. Fraulein von Gusnar, aged twenty-one, is the first German woman apothecary who has succeeded in. passing her examinations. There are, of course, many women, pharmacists in England, SIMPLE LIFE DELICACIES. Visitors to the Simple Life and Healthy Food Exhibition, now being held in London, may learn, how to satisfy their appetites and yet keep- strictly withia line of what the simple life exponents admit. There they will find big supplies of nut butter, nut lard, nut margarine, nut soups, nut cakes, and various other delicacies. One can even have nut puddings in all sorts of flavours from chocolate to cashew. Then there is banana coffee and "trumillc." This last is really milk minus the liquid. All the water is taken out, leaving the nourishing part of the milk in the form of fin© white powder. To turn "trumilk" into the original cow's milk, from which it is made, you simply put back the water which the process has taken out, and the taste will be found to be the same as that of the original liquid milk. In the process of being reduced to powder the milk is pasteurised and rendered free from bacteria. Trumilk powder is put in tins/ and keeps for any length of time. .WASHING IN THE OLD DAYS. Before the ingenious appliances now on view at the Laundry Exhibition were invented, French dandies appear to have spent vast sums on the washing of their linen, says the "Daily Chronicle." In the sixteenth century clothes were sent from all parts of France to be washed in Holland, where the water of the canals was supposed to have special cleansing properties. As the cost of transport was about ten times greater in those days than at present, the exquisite paid heavily for the gloss on his linen. At a later period, persons living in Bordeaux used regularly to send their washing all the way to San Domingo. FOETY-SIN YEARS' ENGAGEMENT. From Geneva comes news this week of the wedding of two persons who have faithfully waited forty-sis years to terminate their engagement by marriage. The couple, who are of the same age, became engaged at eighteen at school, and young \Vattaw left for South America to make his fortune. A month ago he returned to Altdorf a rich man, and ho is now on the way back to the Argentine with his former schoolgirl sweetheart as his wife. During their long separation the couple exchanged about 2000 letters and hundreds of photographs. Fraulein Slngen refused

several offers of marriage when she was young. THE GREATEST THING. "The greatest thing in life," said r udge Eentoul this week m his charming address to the Freemen of London, “is to spread as much happiness as possible among those with whom wo live.” The saying is not a new one, but, it is an uncommonly good one, which most people accept in theory, and which many forget to carry out in practicc. It, of course, takvs special cognisance of the spirit as distinguished from the bodv. No man ever made another "happy" by tho mere fact of giving him a good dinner; whereas many have made others happy with a shake of the hand or a pleasant word that unmistakably spelt friendliness and trust. -Viul it is because happiness is so largely a tiling of the spirit that great poets amt musicians, who so conspicuously minister to the spirit’s needs, stand at so "i-eat an elevation in the esteem of mankind. We have not forgotten what Gladstone, the politician, once said of Tennvsou, the poet: “When I and my works' are dead and forgotten, he and his will still be living, making men and women happier," Before, however, anyone can make others happy he must be happy himself. And, after all, and in spits' of everything, there is, for most of us, a good deal more to be happy about in life than there is cause for unhappiness.—" Pall Hit 11 Gazette."

ADVICE TO GIRLS. Tho Bishop of Bath and Wells, in his charge at Bath on Tuesday, advised the clergy to preach the sanctity arxl sacramental character of matrimony. They should urge upon young men not that they should marry so as to live pure lives, hut to be pure so that they should be worthy’ to marry., His own advice to girls in confirmation was never to dream of marrying any man they could rot kneel down to say then- prayers with.