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NZ Truth, Issue 150, 2 May 1908, Page 5

A Timaru resident named Saunders has invented a tide motor, to utilise the action of the sea. A personal friend of "Truth," whose missus won't let him talk even m his sleep, is at work on an attachment to a woman's jaw, which will furnish power for all domestic purposes. He reckons that on his wife's most voluble days the machine will cut enough firewood to last a week, and beat the family carpet into shreds. An enthusiastic prohibitionist poked under the door of "Truth's" Christchurch office a deeply underlined report of remarks made by some person at the Band of Hope demonstration on ' Easter Monday. In one case a Dunedin doctor "called to see a child that was ill. lie found the mother drunk, aad the baby iv her arms was drunk, too. It's bottle v r as half full of whisky." This paper (onfirms a suspicion always harbored by this paper, j that the average Scotch baby m Duned- : m is reared on whisky and "parrilch," but principally on whisky. It is surprising, that such well-spasoned topers should be overcome bj the national beverage. '