CLEANINGS FROM MANY FIELDS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIV, Issue 14008, 12 March 1920, Page 2

CLEANINGS FROM MANY FIELDS.

\n expert British pianp expert's advice is to have drawing-room fires as frequently as possible, and to keep the lids of afl pianos, grand and upright, raised while the room is warmj nc\ci to own the window for more than a minute in fog or rain; to play as much as possible: to tune regularly, and never, 011 any condition, to keep music hooks or ornaments on the lid or body of the piano. Savs John Bull: What a difference it would make if we had only a score of iiu-11 in the House of Commons ownin" 110 plii'Eiance save to Britain, caring less than nothing for the smiles or frowns of any party, clique or junta calling none their master but their con-.■.-•ier.ce and tlttir King! The mind of the perlectly self-satis-tied person will not go far afield, but remains in its own place as contemptuous of the foolish folk who wijl explore the moon and stars, with their pockets full of unposted letters, and shedding umbrellas. sj»eetacle iases -and brown papr-r parcels oil the way, as the inhabitants of the farmyard of Andersen's uglv duckling. Sale Time Never have 1 seen the shops so crowded as at -the moment. I The bargain-hunters are having a wonderful tune. I am told that many of the things are really wonderfully i;-dueed, particularly evening and day gowns. , .., "Look here, doctor, that you sent me was rather targe,." "Bu,t think what I saved you by telling your wife she shouldn't go to tile south of France this winter." Miss Daisy Ashford, authoress of "The Young Visiters/' a book which caused a sensation, was quietly married recently at the Catholic Church of the Holy Redeemer, Cheyne-row, Chelsea, to ill" James Devlin, a demobilised soldier, who intends to take up farming. In a tramcar (says a London papou) a comfortablv-clad woman was laden with a liig basket and a parcel wrapped in newspaper. "These are my coals lor the week-end," she explained. "Seems hard that we should have to carrv our coals by the handful." Mrs Lloyd George recently took the oath as a magistrate at Carnarvon Sc-sions. She is the first Welshwoman, to he placed 011 the Commision of Peace under the new Act. The Premier's, wife sat on the bench, and was heartily congratulated bv the Lord-Lieutenant on her appointment, which he said was regarded as one of the greatest importance and fraught with the possibility of niucji good. A Lancashire mother was in tcrtvn this week (says a London paper) making trousseau purchases for her elder dautrhter and buving sundry handsome, gifts for the younger. Fur-lined gloves wern chosen for one of the two. Lined with s'i'.iirrel and backed with Persian lamb, these gloves cost from- £5 to £8 a pair. Collar and gloves are a smarter combination this winter than collar and mull. In the Hanipstcad Tube I noticed 011 Monday a. well-dressed woman whose giant gloves might have .protected Shac-kleton or Wild in tlu> Ant-

arctic. ' . All "British dairy produce is to be decontrolled at the end of this month (January). Cream may. be made and' sold- without restriction from January 31. The sugar ration will be reduced to Co % per head weekly instead of Soz from .Tnnuarv 19. The Dailv Mirror says: To-day, as most persons will tell you, church-going in increasing. Most churches are by no means empty..