LIFE’S LITTLE WANTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 27 January 1927, Page 4

LIFE’S LITTLE WANTS.

' -■ " r ■<- . • - ; ■ * ’ *: If A Bit On Evepy Shot; The Australian desire to lay a wager on any form of sport is evinced in Ms E, S. Taylor’s report to: the Christchurch Gun ■Club Pn; his, A'isi't to Melbourne for the shooting championhsips. In all Australian shooting matches a. system is adhered to on account of the betting which ~ds carried on. “Every shot is an event-for betting,” said Mr Taylor, “and as the club charges each! bookmaker £25 for the right to operate for the week, it receives a good rqturn. from about twenty bookmakers. ’’■ * * * V * Win Him With Colour. If you are a single girl, and have grown fond of a. single man, but lift l 1 although friendly, does not seem to u?attracted to you in the way you wish, win him with colour. Colours have a big effect, on us. At one time any colour did for the inside of a factory. How the colouring is scientifically designed to cheer and stimulate the workers. Hospital wards have curative colours. The colour of a frock may depress your spirits or lift them -up. All men have a colour that holds a peculiar and subtle attraction for them. It may be a rich dark blue; a pin k; a. flaming red —anything. Find out somehow —by observation, a little artless questioning, or by halting him in front of drapers’ windows and noting what he says is “nice” or otherwise—what his colour-pull )s.- Give Oiim his colour, but not in excess. Increase it gradually. Then—weib other things being equal, you will -SIBWSC the effect in his eyes, and you’ll soon know that it has spread to his heart. •* * * * Brilliant-luted, Suits. Gas Bluett’s appearance in a plum coloured suit in “The Cousin From Ko-where,” at- His Majesty’s, Melbourne, threatens to revolutionise men’s fashions. -Since the opening night he has received several letters from men commending liis appearance in his brilliant-hued suit, and suggesting that lie would be perpetrating a kindly deed towards male fashions if he were to head a campaign for brighter dressing amongst men. “I don’t see why we should always be dressed •in drab clothes,” wrote one correspondent. “I wonder would you have the pluck to walk the streets an such a suit * I am sure -that, i fyou did, the effect would be to make men wake up to possibilities of colour in their dressing. What about being a brave pioneer, and lead the way? If you do, I shall surely follow.” Gus Bluett, while agreeing that the streets would be given a delightful note of colour if such a - fashion became general, is whether lie really has the pluck to .be-Wc’ !! conic a. pioneer as regards this innovation, or whether he will wait and let ! someone else have the honour and the glory. . . * * * . -■ •. ;* • Embalming. -- a A Washington scientist, after years of experimenting, declares that the juice of the -leek/-or : gai'lie,- isi'the’ secret of the fluid with which, magically, the | ancient Egyptians embalmed bodies. 5 He assert? that itiwa? with garlic and-: onions'that the ancient cults were-. able to make their bodies, indestruct-,, . ... ible in the grave. Hot only may .theremarkable discovery fulfil again, many centuries, the longing of every . r , { individual to escape bodily decay and degeneration after death, ibut.it may also be of immense value in medicine and law. Criminologists claim that through the balsam a whole new field of erinubi detection may ibe opened. Years aftt|pr burial it. may be possible to exhume a V body and ascertain the cause of death as easily as by an autopsy on the day of the occurrence. Organisms treated with the fluid may be soaked in plain water, the Washingtonian claims, and immediately returned to their natural plasticity, size, and colour, no ma.tter how long they have been without life. Onions, he knew, had been found in . the--stomachs of Egyptian mummies. .-So Ife -tried 'his-new-ibalsam as an embalming fluid with remarkable- -resultsT ‘How, afthr - - eight years of experiment, the efikpayof tlie balsam as a preservative of-tie- '*•> i sue lias been proved, to. the'hilt. ' > Rare fishes, which died in-<the tanks’* *' of tfie Hew York Aquarium ■ in 1915,' "•< were treated. To-day these fish are on exhibition at the Catholic University, shorting how perfectly they, have kept their original characteristics. Since the origin almummification. they have been given a number of. plain-water baths to keep them at normal size ajftr ! flexibility. The colours .are now as ural and vivid as when they were alive. . . •