HEBE AND THERE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 20001, 17 July 1920, Page 8

HEBE AND THERE.

Elephants are perhaps the longestlived members of the animal kingdom, averaging between 100 and 200 years. There are records of elephants living o&O years. When a Japanese girl is born, a pair of dolis are presented to her, and she plays with them until she is unite grown up Then, if sh<3 marries? she that the doll* are eventually S *h- daiJ ? hters (tf any), and she adds number of, dolls in accordance with the number of her daughters' Consequently, in some cases. a largo number of dolls ar o collected. k a < S'nS nenta i I polico forces flr c all on ft moio or less military footing and T’v' nTfe ,’™ ed ’“ a S. All the Trench, Italian, and German police near swords, but if forced to draw " instructions are ft. * lO bW »' “ d “ Most nations of tho world use leather, m some form or other for their footgear, the greatest exception being ho Japanese, who use woVen dS to a very largo extent. g To the Actors’ Church, Union has' of the members of the 0 fession who .laid down their lives in tho war, which is yet another link between too most beautiful 0 f our national shrines and some of tho famous players und poets who ar© buried or commemorated within its cloisters. This gift is an exquisitely embroidered pall, or ' hearscclcth, of pure white satin embroidered m gold and many-coloured Bilks with heraldic symbols. The Koval Ar ? l h - bhe Tudor rose and portcullis a . nd the arms of the Confessor, of tho Abbey, and of the Dean, stand out in gorgeous relief from this sumptuous piece qf art needlework at either end of which is wrought the device of the Actors Church Union: the masks of Comedy and Tragedy within a golden aross 1 - The pall was handed to the Dean by the Bishop of Willesden. chairman, and prominent members of too Actors’" Church Union. Increasing evidence is becoming OTil results of hasto in shipbuilding in American yards (says a message from Shanghai).' Hardly a - week goes by without a now American ship having to go into dock for repairs and overhaul. In the case of a steamer which required to bo ro-rivetted, when the work was completed, it was found that 100,000 rivets bad to he cut out and replaced, and tho cost of this operation came to £36,000. Very heavy subsidies will be necessary to enable American ships to compete under such conditions with either British or Japanese vessels. >r , Overworked and orer-tired people should take VITAFEU All-British N T erre Food. It replaces energy, vigour and vim lost in the whirl of work. Ordinary food cannot replace the wastage fast enough. VITAFEK does, because it i$ a reconstructive tonio food. Insist on YITAFBR, 4s 6d, 8s and 14a 6d. Your Chemist can secure it, if he has not got it. 49 There lias recently been placed on. the market a form of paint, two coats of which applied to woodwork, render it, for all practical purposes, non-in-flammable, It can bo had ready for use In a variety of colours, and admits of the application of varnish or enamel bs a final coat without lessening in any way its fire-resisting qualities. The favourable impression made by experiments is confirmed by tho offer of at least one English insurance company to make a substantial reduction in its fire insurance premiums where wooden buildings are protected by this paint. Hays College, Kansas, lacked a cinder running track, and to repair the omission the student© decided to construct one themselves. They appointed a committee of ways and means, the first act of that body being to issue an order that everyone connected with the college should help to lay tho 1 track. The penalty of refusal) was a ducking. Unfortunately two professors, Messrs Harvey and Start, and a student named Lindquist, objected this seeming interference with their personal liberty, and refused to take any part in the work. > In consequence the Students marched) in procession to the delinquents’ quarters, and a few minutes J[ater three splashes in the college pond announced that the penalty bad feesn enforced, Now the State officials are to investigate the matter. So many anglers, young and old, have a prejudice against eels, that it may bo interesting to them to know what the British Government is doing with “tho slippery things.” Before the war 7000 tons of eels were oaten S early in England, and 5500 tons of liat bulfk came from German rivers. The Gormans had an eol nursery on the Bristol Channel, probably for intercepting too “eel fare," or migration of yonng eels from the sea to the English rivers, and thus they constantly stocked their own rivers. Now the British Government has commandeered the nursery, and is stocking up British streams with eels. Anglers won’t like it, of course, but the first concern of the Government just now is food supply. : The monster Photographic Fair, with its conferences or Profession,) 1 Workers and Dealers, that was hold in April at the Horticultural Hall, Westminster, is a reminder of tho fact that eighty-tone years have elapsed since the first photographic portrait of a living person was taken, says too " Daily Chronicle.” This historic daguerreotype picture—still in existence in America—was of a Miss Dorothy Draper, daughter of Professor Draper, of Now York. Tho process, history tells us, was then so slow that the sitter’s face was covered with white powder, too exposure being about thirty minutes, and in bright sunshine! One of tho greatest photographic booms was in 1857, when a French duko had his portrait placed on his visiting cards in place of his name. Disdsri, the Parisian Court photgrapher, who made the pictures, saw money in the idea, and very soon it became the correct; thing for every person to present Ids friends with his “ carte-de-visite.” Much has evolved in recent years to cause toe general public to revise its conception of tho farmer (says an American exchange). Since he began riding into towfl in a motor-car to deposit profits in a bank the business world has placed him on a new basis as an industrial factor. Since he installed a bath tub, electric lights, telephone, and other modem conveniences folks from, the city have gone to visit him and enjoy farm fare that would cost him much more if indulged in in a city restaurant. His motorisation, illumination, sanitation and association have broadened his mind and increased his efficiency. Ho is making his occupation a business instead of tho strong-aniv and buck-plodding drudgery it formerly was. Ho is proving an apt pupil in adaptation of information and other means available fuf improving th« character of Kis profession, as it now is regarded, the quality of his products, and increasing toe proportion of profit. His progress in this respect is even disquieting to those who seek political preferment. They cannot place him. He does not respond to the lure of free seeds and free publications that cost tho candidate nothing. From being toe easiest _ to place element in the, voting citizenship he has changed to the most uncertain. Tho producers of grain and other food essentials have, learned much in tile tiirmtof Govern-' ment control of prices. AfTpii'seut they appear to be preparing by organisation to do the price-fixing themselves, and even surpass a friendly administration m roe margin set between cost of production and that to bo paid by eastern tanners, who do not produce their own bread substances, and by the large general public that constitute the only un- 1 organised portion of the papulae# rt ‘