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Otago Daily Times, Issue 13834, 22 February 1907, Page 6

—In some of the rural districts of Prance, every boy or girl takes to school in the morning a handful of vegetables and puts them in a large pan of water - . They are then washed by one of the older pupils, who take tnrn6 at. poTformmp: this duty. Later, the vegetables are placed in a kettle with water and a piece of pork, and are rooked while the lessons are going on. At 11.50 o'clock each scholar has a bowl of hoi sotm. Tij cover the cost of fuel and meat the richer pupils pay a small sum caoh month.

— Memory bells are toys given by '.he Japanese youths to their sweethearts. They are constructed of slips of glass so delicately poised that the least vibration sets them jingling. The delicate tinkling serves to remind their owner of the giver; hence the pretty, fanciful name,.