HERE AND THERE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17014, 12 April 1923, Page 6

HERE AND THERE.

AN EYE FOR EVERYTHING. TELLING KIM OFF. A certain big liner was commanded by an officer who suffered from •■swelled head. He put on frills to such an extent that this little habit got on the ™ of one rather irritable passenger] display of pomposity, he could *»tand it no longer. "Sir." the passenger burst out " you may think that you're the boss of creation. but Fd like to ted you that m niy opinion you’re nothing more than the conductor of au aquatic motor bus!” aquatic gold in britain AI though Welsh gold, which is to piowde a wedding ring lot- Lady Elisabeth Bovt es-. Lyon. also composed the wedding rings for the Queen and Prinmajority of i,eoi>!e » re pioi;n,Dis unaware to what extent gold lias at various tunes been found in Oilicrcrit pans oi the kingdom. Scottish reefs wore in regular working in Stua!t days, ana still earlier provided the metal tor a, porringer for Queen Elizabeth. British gold also provided coronation medals for Charles I. The reins m V. ales are the only one£ which nowadays seem to receive any serious attention. PURITY CRUSADER. Mrs Ormiston Chant, the temperance reformer and purity crusader, died at Banbury. Oxfordshire, recently, aged seventy-four. _\l rs Ormiston Chant was "ell known for her crusade in IHOS against the promenades at London music halls. She raised objection to the character of certain women who promenaded at tiiese resorts, and her attacks led to a. great deal cf controversy. She twice defended her attitude from the stage of the Oxford Music Hall. Mrs Chant had been known as a temperance lecturer and a preacher posed to' tiie vivisection of animals.’iu the campaign for women’s votes belore the war she warmly condemned militant tactics. She published many books of children’s .songs, and was first a school-mistress and then a nurse. In 1876 she married the late Dr Chant, whom she met at the London Hospital. TO GET GOOD SIGHT. It is said that your eyesight is ng footed by the place in which you iivo. To have really good sight you must reside in a country where the land is fiat and unbroken. The people with th» best sight are found in the neighbourhood of the North Pole and at * the Equator. In the first of these place* i here are frozen wastes: in the other there are vast deserts. An Eskimo can see a white fox against the snow at au incredible distance, and an Arab can name objects at a distance of fire miles. In America those who- live on the great plains have wonderful sight, since the country i< without- obstacles which shorten the range of vision. In Europe the Norwegians are gifted with the best eyesight. UNIQUE PRESENTS FOR THE BRIDE. Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon has ao ceptecl the oiler of a proem, on the occasion oi her marriage with the Duke cl A,irk. from the National Chinchilla Rabbit Club. Ihe gift will take the form of a “ Chiuchelon ” fur-coat, which will be the first ol its khid ever made. Each member of the Chinchilla. C'luh will send one or two selected skins or a subscription to the amount of their value, and no cost or trouble will be spared in turning out a garment that will do credit! to the Chinchilla breed. Bobber footwear of every kind, including tennis shoes, fishing boots, and goloshes, is to be given to Lady 11 izabeth as a wedding present by the Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers. These boots and shoes are being made especially by various manufacturers. Officers and men of the. Royal Navy and th. Royal Marines are to give a present to the Duke- The subscriptions, which are to be restricted te half a crown in the case of officers and sixpence in the case of ratings. Dartford. Kent, proposes to celebrate the wedding by givivhom there are a large number in town. The Duke has given his entire approval to the proposal, and expresses his sympathy with the unemployed. AMERICAN AIR EXPRESSES. Alajor-General Sir W. S. Brancker, in a paper on the po-ition of air transport, said that heights of 30.000 ft and speeds of 300 'miles an hour are pusI .sable, placing New A ork within 12 hours oi London, ami abu that navigation through any cloud or storm will be as easy to the aircraft of the future as navigation of the sea is to the Ifisf ship ol to-day. Air tiansport must ho very carefully nursed until it is economically independent, but if 00 passengers could he* secured a day on the Lon-,n»»!-Par:s route th y could be carried at £4 8s a head, with the D.H. 34 type of machine, or at U-5 with a considerable profit, and that without any subsidy. Aiajoi - ---General llram-kner, who is Director of Civil Aviation, gave a somewhat disquiet ing ace ouut of the backwardness of British air transport. The total distance flown on regular routes was only 082 {’6o miles in 1922. The distance flown in I ranee was scheduled at 2,220,000 miles. The amount spent bv France in subsidies to civil flying was about £3.000,000 as against a sum of about £600.000 spent in this country in a iwriod of ihree years. In Germany the ainouns cif scheduled flying last year w as ] .030. - j 000 miles. Groat progress has l>ee»i i made by British aircraft to wards safeity and trustworthiness. Only three j fatal accidents took place last year, i ami there were no fatal accidents t^ , passengers on the regular British air j routes-. | SIM.RIIUR- IN SOLUTION. It is announced that to a Bviti*n j scientist belongs the credit oi discover- • ing a secret in regard to sulphur which, i like many another problem, baffled ali 1 attempts at solution for centuries. Hi j ! success is of general as veil as <cionj tific interest . for it means beon in ! the treatment of a number of the ills I that flesh is heir to, and now a soluj tion of sulphur, called “Sulfluid." is j available. Air Thomas Barker, the in- ! ventor. in an interview, stated that it ha s taken 20 years and involved a large i openditure to perfect the method of manufacture of the discovery. The actual secret was revealed to Mr Uarker work in other fields, and. later, the discovery of Sulfluid as a cure for skin troubles was made under somewhat strange circumstances. One day a small boy hi the* street was noticed to be so horribly affected by a skin disease i on his head that immediate attention laboratory, and for the first time this i solution of sulphur was used on a human being. !n a fortnight the skin i had healed, and .since .then thousands