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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17183, 29 October 1923, Page 6

HERE AND THERE.

AN EYE FOR EVERYTHING. 1 TRADE UNION CONGRESS. At the British Trade Union Con grew which was held at Plymouth. Mr Fred Bramley was appoints l tbe new secretary of the General Council. A retiring allowance of £.300 a year wa» granted to Mr C. AV. Bowerman. MjBramley who is a cabinet-maker, is in his fiftieth year. He was bom at Pool, near Otley. in 1874. In his early twenties he became prominent in the Labour movement in Bradford. In. 1904 he became a Clarion vanner. Eleven years ago he was appointed organising secretary of the Furnishing ! Trades Association. He is entirely op—i posed to the idea of cme big union* apd believes that it is most important to retain the spirit Of craft pride in industry. As leader of a strike of chair-makers, at High AVycombe. just before the war, he organised the strikers into an anti-violence brigade t«» maintain order, and rendered the presence of a body of London police unnecessary. MEMORIAL TO WINDSOR YEOMEN. A memorial to the members of the 41 A ” Squadron (Windsor. Maidenhead and Workingham ) Berkshire Yeomanry who lost their lives in the war, has been erected on a portion of £he grounds occupied by the Windsor and Eton Bowls Club, bv the riverside with Windsor Castle in the background. The memorial of ak Cornish grey granite obelisk, th» names being inscribed in raised leaded letters. It was unveiled and dedicated in the presence of a large number of relatives and friends, the ceremony being performed by the Rev A. G- Parham. M.C. (rector of Eastharapatead) formerly chaplain to the South Midland Mounted Brigade. The Rev Parham said the names of the dead recorded on the monument recalled t® mi ml personalities known and loved, men who had lived and moved amongst them. It needed no monument t-o keep alive in the hearts ot the bereaved of their dearest and best the memory of those who went forth at the call of duty never to retnrn. KEEPS BEE IN HIS MOUTH. Mr A. G. Gambrill. of Richmond { (Surrey) who is Master of the Bees to King ATanuel of Portugal, has achieved the feat- of Tracing a queen bee in hia mouth and keeping it there for sotro time without being stnng. In transferring a queen -bee from one swarm to another Mr Gambrill has often had difficulty in replacing the frame in the hive with one hand while he held the l>ee in the other. Tn order to cvrerromo this difficulty he tried the expedient of placing the hep between his lips while he used both hands to restore the i frame. The experiment was surcese- ! ful and Mr Gambrill now always rei sorts to it. and has never been stung. Mr Gambrill says he has never heard of aiTyone else who has made this experiment.

A RAPTD RTSE. i The rapid rise to fame of many at man and woman is truly remarkable* ; Here, for instance, is the story of Miss | G rat io Fields, once a shop-girl in Rochdale, and who is now a star of the j first magnitude in the theatrical world. Only recently she was offered a week to remain in T/ondon. hut she preferred to go on touring in a revue written bv her husband. Mr Archie Pitt* who himself took tbe part- of the principal comedian. “We are such a happy * party that T should hate to break up ! the revue.” Miss Fields said. 4 *T like • acting with my husband, and my two ’ ! sisters are also in the company. Tt may ’ 1 amuse you to know that in the early | v.celts of the run T happened to meet a cinema agent who tried. T suppose, ' i to pay me a compliment. ‘You have a. ' = lovely voice.’ he said. T think yon i would be. a. success on the screen!’ : That was not to be so far. for Mis* ! Fields has been delighting London audi-

MOST AMAZING MEN ' The most amazing rare of human :nqs is undoubtedly the. FI Molo, » r ' > i tribe of “fishermen” who inhabit tho - | desert wastes bordering T.ake Rudolf* ! i;i Kenya Colony, Africa. This triba > | represents the only known specimens of t ! semi-amphibiouc people, and it is a , | mrious fact that any tribesman die* i, iif be is kept without water for about ! three hours. As a rule, they drink every hour during the day. for even an hour and a half without water cause* cracking and bleeding of the lips. Th® K 1 Mnlo tribesmen «pend their days swimming in the waters of I.ake Rudolf, and fishing from fraiT raft* constructed with palm branches. Fish ia almost- their only diet, and they bare no opportunity of varying their menu unless thev are fortunate enough to ‘•pear a hippopotamus. The water of hake Rudolf is undrinkable to anyone Vut the F.l Molo. for it contains a large ouantity of soda, and has at} objectionable teste. The proportion of soda in the lake increases yearly, and it :* heIfoved to he this fact that ha* caused the •• fish me n*’ to become a deformed PHOTOGRAPHING THOUGHT A professor of physical research in California lias evolved a means of photographing thought, and has demonstrated to the satisfaction of one and all. the “ New York American " tells v.s. The embarrassing part of the thing is that, he can work it on anybodvand without a camera. All he does is to hold up a sensitive plate, and if you concentrate sufficiently, your thoughts will appear on the plate all pictured out. truthfully and lifelike. It is now up to all men to take an inventorr of their thoughts and rearrange, them so they will look well in print, just as a man combs his hair and gets a shave I before he goes to have his photograph taken. In other words, be has got to per-e his thoughts. But the little machine is going to be very valuable when t people generally learn how to operate iit How handy it will be when a man ! goes into the financial district to buv i a few stocks to have one ot these 1 thought plates with him. He can even igo into a bucket-shop with perfect securitv. Tf he knows what the stock salesman is thinking about he will never be stung. A lady will be able* to sit at the dinner table in the evening with one of these plates ready for action, and when her husband says h* has got to do down town and meet a customer from Chicago she can ieam the truth in the twinkling ot an eye. Nobody in the world can imagine what thev are Thinking about. *ud we hare an idea the machine will fail. Turned on the average wife, it will show it picture- of a new bat. On a motorist, it will show a large red gasoline pump m front of a filling station. On rbe average hard-working husband and father, it will show a set of income tax figures. The safest thing to do •when these machines are abroad through the land is to think alvut nothing, and a large percentage of th« people do that too.