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Wairarapa Age, 7 May 1924, Page 5

Recently the Stonehouse Board of. Guardians, Plymouth, were asked by an old pensioner if they could find him a wife. The Relieving Officer has received 420 applications from all parts of the Kingdom, th© applicants ranging from girls in their teens to women of 80. A Hath provision merchant, on unpacking half a hundredweight of American lard, from Chicago, found a note inviting tho finders to write to them. They artlessly described themselves as “two good girls, and really pretty.” The billet dqux was written on grease-proof paper. When a man walks a mile he takes on an average 2263 steps but when he rides a bicycle with an average gear, he coveres a mile with an equivalent of only 627’lsteps. Steajny shop windows can be prevented by placing two or three stone hotwater bottles filled with hot w’ater in the window, and refilling them as occasion requires. ■ A “Heroes’ Garden” is part of the proposed was memorial scheme for Aidershot. At Eitpddfordy Gweithwyr. Dolgelley. the chaired bard, the leader of the mixed choir, the leader of the children’s choir, the tenor soloist, awarded premier honours, and the second in Penillion singing with harp accompaniment were all Great Western Railway signalmen.' BURNS ANi) SCALDS. „. I ’J A -- ’ If you burn or scald yourself/apply wjU bririg instant relief from pain. qhh(,that, but it will prevent a blistd*' cause the part to heaf a’ihtkly' without leaving a scar. Sold by all chemists and storekeepers.