BROUGHT BOAT TO SHORE WITH TEETH

Taranaki Daily News, 3 November 1934, Page 15 (Supplement)

BROUGHT BOAT TO SHORE WITH TEETH

Lewis Deane, the 15-year-old son of a New York dentist, was out in a sailing boat in Long Island Sound with a girl friend lately when the wind fell and the boat was becalmed. Becoming impatient, the boy slipped into the water, held the towrope with his teeth, and began to swim the five miles to land, dragging the boat behind him. In four hours he brought the boat to land. It was after midnight when the boy waded ashore. QUEER LIVELIHOODS IN INDIA •Apparently, the West has not the sole monopoly of queer ways of earning a living, for the following extract is taken from the current census report of India', and shows that there are in India such odd professions as those practised by sellers of grasshoppers, pourers of water on gods, averters of hailstorms, suckers of bad blood, setters of gold nails in teeth, breakers of dead bullock horns, cradle swingers, professional identifying witnesses, charity receivers on burial grounds, drivers away of epidemics by charms and ear wax removers. In addition, the census tables reveal that altogether there are 37,778 people earning their living as horoscope casters, astrologers, wizards, witches, mediums and fortune-tellers. JOBS GOING BEGGING Fifteen hundred girls were wanted lately for rush work at Hayes, Middlesex, factories in connection with the Radio Exhibition—and they could not be found. “We want the girls, trained or untrained, as soon as possible,” stated an official of a company. “In addition, we want cabinet improvers, French polisher improvers and . highly-skilled radio testers in as great a number as we can get them. “The girls need not know anything about radio, but if they are sufficiently nimble-fingered to do good needlework they would be all right for us. Salaries offered are at or above union rates, plus an efficiency bonus.”