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Otago Witness, Issue 3831, 16 August 1927, Page 37

She was of tho modern flapper type, and the skyward tilt of her nose was on of pose (says the Christchurch Sun). When sha entered the Bryndwyr bus. a tired man, yielding to the force of tradition, rose from his seat. Without so much as a glance in his direction, she deigned to accept it. “I beg your pardon?” said the man. Tha damsel gazed on him with an aloof airj “I did not speak,” she said. “Sorry,” re-: marked the man, and his raised voice caused other passengers to sit up attentively. “I thought: you said ‘ThanM von.’ !”

It had been found that men were capable of prolonged physical exertion on a vegetable diet equally with a meat diet (stated Dr C. H. Tewsley in a lecture in Auckland). His opinion was that, provided the essentials were there, it mattered not whether the proteins wera derived from the animal or the vegetable kingdom. It was largely a matter of habit. Brain work, unlike manual labour, did not cause appreciable bodily waste. An over-supply of food was generally unfavourable to mental work, and was apt to produce lethargy. Tha digestibility of the food was more important than its chemical content to tha mental worker. It was far easier for a manual worker to be a vegetarian, than it was for a brain worker. Ha did not think that a vegetarian diet had an effect on improving morality or intellectuality. A vegetarian-eating bull waa just as fierce, as a flesh eating tiger when its instincts were aroused.