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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6136, 24 March 1898, Page 3

A Social Talk. — Mrs Harris gave, the second of her social talks at the Gloucester Street Coffee Rooms yesterday evening. Her subject was " The Proper Home-train-ing of Children." The lecturer insisted on the desirableness of reproducing the genuine art of home-training, as practised by the old-fashioned 'iousewives. She also demonstrated the necessity for properly conducted institii -s for girls, and said that such institute* should be run on purely unsectarian lines, so that all might meet on a perfectly level footing. Mrs Harris dwelt on the evils which too often resulted from the reading of pernicious and loosely moral literature, and said that the greatest care in conversation with the young was essential. A wise choice of companions was in itself a great safeguard against those evils to which the young were peculiarly liable. j Heat holidays have been establiaied by law in the public schools of Switsferland. Recognising the well-known fact that the brain cannot work properly when the heat is excessive, the children are dismissed from their tasks whenever the thermometer goes above a certain point. There are fully 1000 tons of piping of various kinds in a big Atlantic liner. The condensers will pump up at least 50,000 tons of cool water a day. The furnaces will consume no less than 7,500,000 cubic feet of air an hour. The boiler tubes, if placed in a straight lino, would stretch nearly ten miles, and the condenser tubes more than twenty-five miles. The total number of separate pieces of steel in the ma^ str m c u ure of the shi P ia not less than short of 1,250,000.