NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 63, 28 May 1928, Page 4

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Mr Goodfellow has discovered that the Dairy Control Board is a farce. It is understood that many dairy farmers share his view. * * * The way in which some people talk makes one. think that the best way to enjoy a performance in the Town Hall on a cold night is to stay at home. * * * A German inventor holding the belief that a monotonous noise will induce sleep has patented a machine to make the necessary row and so cure insomnia. In theory it may be all right, but any resident of the south end of Stratford will tell the German benefactor that in practice it is all wrong. Night after night the continuous howling and barking of dogs is monotonous enough, but any sleep-producing properties the noise may have are not very apparent. * * * The astonishing question: Is a tomato a fruit or a vegetable? in spite of its seeming frivolity, has been the subject of serious deliberations by members of the Australian House of Representatives and even famous scientists and botanists, but all to no purpose. The need for an answer to this momentous question arose from the discovery of a contradiction i n the tariff schedule This allowed the importation of tomatoes in pulp form as “vegetables” while demanding the higher payment of “fruit” rates for tomatoes in concentrated form, The question was first referred for decision to no less an authority .than the Commonwealth Attorney-General, who threw up his hands in despair and frankly confessed his inability to dispose of it. * * * The high price of brides is beginning to worry young and marriageable men in the East. A mass meeting held in Damascus recently elected a committee to seek a modification of the custom requiring the man who wculd marry to pay over a handsome sum of money to the father of the girl of his choice. The western custom is more to the liking of the eastern swain. u'he men working for the reform say that they are not 1 impelled by selfish motives, but are interested in the welfare of the State; marriages, they say, are on the decrease owing to the greed of parents who have been raiding prices in the marriage markets. * * w If the public of Stratford had only realised the kind of entertainment given by Mr Laszlo Schwartz and Miss Assheton on Saturday, the Tow n Hall would have been packed. It was really wonderful, and the enjoyment was not lessened by the fact that there was nothing “highbrow” in it. It gripped everyone in a remarkable fashion, and perhaps the most descriptive tribute to it lay in the remarks of a youth who was heard to say to a pal as he camte put: “It makes jazz look silly, don’t it!” Mr Schwartz came into the office °f the Evening Post this morning and said he would come back again later in the year. He was not at all complimentary jjboijt the Town Hall, which he considered un- ’ worthy of a place like Stratford. He didn’t put it quite like that, though. K