HERE AND THERE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18182, 15 June 1927, Page 8

HERE AND THERE.

AN EYE FOR EVERYTHING. A Chauffeur’s Tips. A chauffeur, who was defendant m a case at Greenwich, told the court that he received tips of 2s when a* tending funerals and 2s 6d for weddings. The man’s wife declared that her husband had told her that h:S tips amounted to about £1 per day. :*: Children and Traditions. Rumanian mothers tie red ribbons around the ankles of their children to preserve them from harm, while E;tonian mothers attach bits of asafoetida to the necks of theiT offspring. Among Vosges peasants, children born at a new moon are supposed to have the r tongues better hung than others, whi o those born at the last quarter are believed to have less tongue but better reasoning powers. A daughter born during the waxing moon is always supposed to be precocious.^ M.C.C. Captain Retracts. Mr A. E. R. Gilligan, captain of th® M.C.C team which toured India last winter, in a letter to the London Pre i Association, has expressed regret th t# on his return he attributed “snobbis ness” to certain clubs in India. “It h's been pointed out,” he wrote, “that a club has rules by which its committee must abide, and I realise that th* expression was inappropriate and might appear to qualify the gratitude of my team for the splendid welcome, hospitality and courtesy shown us generally. I was speaking under a sense of greut resentment, unanimously shared by my team, at a quite unjustifiable allegation aimed at a very prominent supporter of the game who had done his very best to help India to see a firstclass English side.” Mr Gilligan had complained that amateurs In the team were asked to be honorary members of clubs, while the professionals were Ignored. This. he said, was grossly discourteous to the M.C.C., and especially to Lord Harris,* a former Governor of Bombay* « » Piccadilly Signal*. The traffic signalling system, which was introduced in Piccadilly last August, has not been a success. Drivers ignore the coloured lights because they* cannot obey their signals until the policemen give them permission, and the police themselves regard them as of little use in speeding up traffic. Traffic experts have realised that a signal system in London, to be successful, must be modelled on the Paris system, and it is hoped eventually so to replace it. The lights must be in a high central position where all driveis can see them and act upon them, and bells must ring to warn driver* of an approaching change of signal. In Palis traffic is held up by a red light, ar»d a second or two before it changes to green—thus permitting the flow of the held-up traffic—a bell is rung, and immediately all drivers put their cars in gear ready to move off. Hig Daily Win® BiH. The “Keep the Home Fires Burning** fraud case was concluded at London Sessions, when Sydney Moor, aged 41, an engineer, and Alfred Springer, aged 41, also an engineer, were found guilty of obtaining money by false pretences. During the coal stoppage, under the name of the Regent Distributing Corporation, Ltd., they advertised “Keep the Home Fires Burning” and offered tarred road blocks at 5s a cwt Detec-tive-Sergeant Sands said that altogether £4Ol was received from 928 peopie, none of whom received blocks.’ £95 was refunded to 172 customers. Eight r customers received a rug in return f r their ss. “Moor was doing himself very well in varrous hotels,” said Detective Sands after the men had been, found guilty. “He was riding about .n a well-appointed car, and just before his arrest he was staying at Bournemouth, where his daily wine bill was two guineas, 25s and similar sura: Moor was sentenced to 21 months* hard labour. Sentence on Springer wa» postponed. How to Fight th® ’Flu. With the coming of winter and the cold, frosty mornings, many people ?ir® living in dread of an influenza outbreak. A leading Australian medical man says that the opportunity afforded by successive epidemics of influenza to discover its true inwardness has unfor* tunately been without any result. Some of the best brains in the civilised world have been hard at work to elucidate the problems which this evasive scourg® presents, but so far no one has succeeded. In these days of siege w*e must do the best we can with such weapons as we can obtain. The best of these is soap and water cleanliness, applied to the nostrils at least three times a day. The soapsuds should be insinuated into the nose on the little finger, and given several minutes so that they may cause a full downward flow of flushing mucus. A good sneeze is a great ally, and to this end snuff need not be a®* spised. There are several good nasal ointments on the market, any of which can be safely put into the nostrils when the preliminary toilet is complete. When a person believes himself to hav® caught influenza, let him give in at once. To fight the microbe at that stage is to court disaster in the shape or pneumonia and other deadly complications. Ward off the disease, if bv reasonable precautions you can do so, but if your precautions should fail, then show your valour by your discretion. Send for a doctor—and go to bed.