LIFE’S LITTLE WANTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 17 December 1927, Page 5

LIFE’S LITTLE WANTS.

.Golf! “Yes,”, said the golf visitor to Lansdowue, reminiscently, “I first went round this course in 1005. ”• “Rotten,” said the club bore, “I can do it in'l2o. ” • * * • A Business Trip! The Wellington business men are (planning a business trip to Samoa and Niue. The big idea is, of course, developing business. I doubt if they will get away with it. They won’t if they have wives like mine, writes a correspondent. • • * * Daylight Saving. “Constant Reader writes to the ■ 4 ‘Auckland Star”: —I read in your that a farmer had weighed the milk taken, and found that his cows lb less of milk under the aiew hours. 1 suppose the next thing we will be hearing will be that the same -cows have banded themselves together with the determination not to yield a 'drop of milk until this baneful Act of Air Sidey’s is repealed. But what of my own country (Scotland), where they 1 have daylight from three in the morning till ten at night ? The cows here will soon settle down to the now order of things, and I have no doubt will be sending a deputation to wait on Mr :Sidev, thanking him for the innovation. * * • * Loud Speakers in Church. The installation of loud speakers in a •Calcutta mo-sque is not the first in•stanco of the equipment of places of worship with ‘artificial voice amplifiers •of this kind. y..- It is quite usual on special occasions, s.ays a London paper, such as Armistice [Day, for the clergy of St. Martin ’s-in-thc-Fields to place loud speakers in the ■crypt. More usually in England —the :nboustics of the great cathedrals and ■churches are often deplorable —the sermon is made audible by means of a .sounf-jjjj* board. There is a wonderful specimen in St. Paul’s Cathedral, and ■others in London are to be found in •Southwark Roman Catholic Cathedral, Brompton Oratory and St. Mary’s AbBotts, Kensington. * * * » “One Man’s Meat ” The old truism'that one man’s meat ‘ is another man’s proison applies to animals as well as to human life. There •Tre creatures which seem almost to thrive on poisons which are fatal to -others. The ichneumon, the mongoose, .and even the hedgehog can withstand :the 'bites of poisonous snakes with litrfcle apparent inconvenience. The theory is that the blood in animals which are immune is able to prepare a garrison of “anti-toxins” or “anti-bodies/of some kind, sufficient -to withstand a strong invasion of toxins.

• v ßut why are some creatures thus projected, whilst others, equally deserving, ajfceft to take their chance