HERE AND THERE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18406, 7 March 1928, Page 8

HERE AND THERE.

an eye for everything. Short Skirts and Trams. A good word is said for short skirts by Mr If. L. Kenworthy, who has just retired from the service of the London Metropolitan Electric Tramways after driving for forty-seven years. He says they help to solve the traffic problem! In an interview he remarked: “Women and girls jump on the cars quicker now than ever they did. They never tread on their petticoats—because they couldn’t if they tried! There are non© of the old delays caused by women wrestling with their trailing skirts and gathering them up or tripping over them when getting on a ear, and this means a great saving of time to traffic. Girls, in fact, are far speedier than men now in climbing on and off trams and ’buses,” he said. Mr Kenworthy has driven horse, steam and electric trams about 1.184.400 miles, and carried some 33,510,000 people. Love at High Voltage. At a popular Riviera resort recently there was an epidemic of short but frequent interruption in the electric lighting current, which caused great annoyance to residents. The company, besieged by complaints, sent an inspector to find out the reason. lie discovered that the interruptions were caused deliberately by an amorous employee, who made use of the current to send communications to his sweetheart. Two stoppages of the current in quick succession meant that he would not be free to meet her that evening, and further messages, similarly contrived, informed her of a change in place or time. Thus the public were driven to distraction while the ingenious lover* arranged their plans. The Clover and the Mosquito. In some parts of Holland, as welt as in Argentina, wild clover is being planted because where it flourishes the malarial mosquito does not thrive. What the mosquito's particular dislike for the clover field may be is not certain. but it is said that in the delta lands of Egypt the malarial mosquito is rare, although there should be plenty of breeding-places for it. 'lt is significant that clover fields are to be found in great numbers. In a geneial way the cultivation of land cleais away mosquitoes by drying up their breed-ing-places. but it may be that clover is in some way unsuited to them when they are past the larval stage Ihe malarial mosquito has gone from all but a very few places in England, where in the Middle Ages it was rile. A Fashionable Street. St. James’s Street, in London, was laid out by the Duke of St. Albans in the reign of Charles 11. The new thoroughfare quickly became fashionable, both as a place of residence and for aristocratic trade For statesmen and nobles it was a favourite centre in Stuart times, and the neighbouring streets are named after famous people of that period. Thus Arlington Stre **, immortalised a member of the Cabal, the Duke of St. Albans gave his name to Termvn Street, while the Duchess of Cleveland, after whom Cleveland Row is called, was that Lady Castlemaine whom Pepvs so oft*#* mentioned.