The North Canterbury Education Board is going to encourage bpenI air teaching m the summer months. It is a wonder no one had the horsesense to think of it years ago. A fashionable doctor m Europe declares that, m the early nges, human bolnps lapped, tholr drink from the surfaco of running streams instead of dipping tholr beaks In as the moderns do. Ho reckons that cups and spoil the shape of the mouth, and says that people would be much handsomer If they absorbed tho necessary liquid dog fashion. Aluny of his patients are now following this plan— especially the women, but, of course, their tongues are longer than men's, so the custom won't bo so awkward for thorn, though some of our becr-chowcrs would probably -welcome tho change, If tho purge wero supplied to them m. a inb-lull,
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NZ Truth, Issue 380, 5 October 1912, Page 5
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