COCAINE AND DIVORCE.

Patea Mail, Volume XLIV, 24 November 1920, Page 1

COCAINE AND DIVORCE.

Father Bernard Vaughan, at llio Holy Name Churcli, Manchester, said that divorce after three years' separation was spoken of. "Why wait three years?" he asked ironically. "Why not six weeks? If a divorce were wanted for drunkenness, whj' not for taking' cocaine—a far worso drug?" SEAPLANES AS LIFE SAVERS. Will seaplanes supplant lifeboats? The question is engaging the retention of experts both in England and in America. Now that the stability of these machines is such as to enable them to fly in a gale, it is believed that they can do good work in carrying life-lines to foundering ships. The lines will be weighted, and cast from the planes a short distance from the off-shore side of the ship, and the seaplane will then pay out line across the ship, and carry it to the beach, where it will 1)0 weighted and dropped to men handling the gear. OS-PACE LOVE LLTTEK. "I must have wanted something to do, said a Northampton bricklayer, named Tom Mann Claridge, when he admitted that dauring his courtship he wrote a letter cf 38 pages to his wife through the .Matrimonial Gazette. He was sued by his wife at Northampton for maintenance. "Pm a silly man," he said, "and if lie magistrates give me six months for having anything to do with a matrimonial agency it will serve me right. II will, I hope, be a warning to everyone else." The case was dismissed. "IF HE IS CAESAR." A man told the Willesden magistrate that he objected to paying alimony to his wife, under an order of the court, so long as she continued to have a lodger, who, he alleged, was the cause of their separation. The wife said the man was "merely an ordinary lodger," and he would not goThe Magistrate, to the wife: " Your husband is Caesar, and you are Caesar's wife, and must be above suspicion. You must got rid of this I lodger." The woman, with a contemptuous nod to her husband: If he is Caesar let him be a man as well, and get rid of this lodger for me. HOPS AND HOWLS. Cross-summouses for assault in respi? et of: in ambers of two families living in the same house were heard at Willesden. The upstairs family complained that night after night they were kept awake by the downstairs baby, but they just lay in bed and bore it. When however, they gave a little dance in their rooms the downstairs people burst into their premises and assaulted them. The downstairs mother said that she stood the dancing till midnight, when she could put up with it no longer, particularly as the baby could not sleep. The parties were bound over. ELIXIR OF LIFE. fcTlic methods of rejuvenating men women which. Professor Stcinbach of Vienna, claims to have discovered, and which has been looked upon with scepticism in various medical circles, appear to have commended themselves to the well-known German investigator, Professor Wilhelm Roux, director of the Halle University, who is iu possession of complete details of the process, lie describes in the Press the effects of the treatment of animals, and what is more interesting, on human beings. One man suffering from senile decay became young-looking, and his bodily strength increased. Trembling of his hands ceased, his movements grew surer, and his memory and mental energy returned. A man of PI who aged prematurely, and whose general weakness was such as to make him quite until for work, recovered entirely and was eventually able to undertake the severe exertion involved in carryin- heavy weights. The treatment of women with Rontgen rays, which is the second process used by 'Professor : Stcinbach, has, it is said, given then, freshness of appearance and energy; in fact, has physically and mentally restored their youth. It is actually claimed thai this rejuvenating process can prolong human life, and has already extended that of animals; that in any case it makes the Inter years of life, so often marred by weaknesses and illnesses, a period of enjoyable health, and vigour. All this seems too good to be true, and the verdict of the medical experts, after more exhaustive trials, will be be awaited with great interest.