LIFE’S LITTLE WANTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 December 1927, Page 4

LIFE’S LITTLE WANTS.

Well! i LYH * “ Your mother-in-law accuses you of stealing her trunk. What have you to say ? ’’ “ Your Honour, I, simply hid her trunk; 1 was afraid slic'd leave us.” He was given IS months —six for stealing and 12 for lying. * * * * Seagulls’ Eggs. Seagulls’ eggs, similar in size and sl.aps to hens’ eggs, but dull sea-green in colour, with brown splashes, are imported to England in small quantities fiom Denmark. They find a ready sale among hotels and restaurants. * * * # Pencil Barometers. > • According to a bus an infallible portent of wet he softening of the indelible pencils winch he and his colleagues use in making those notes which are, to the passenger, such a mysterious part of the job of conducting omnibuses. Rain is sometimes signalled in this way, as much as 24 hours ahead, he says, and his' view, justly or unjustly, was that the indelible pencil had a more accurate notion of things meteorological than the experts. * * * * A Doorstep Romance. Complaining that a young man, living in the same house, conducted, his love affairs on the doorstep almost nightly from ton to twelve, and thus kept him awake, a resident asked the YY’illesden, North-AVest London, ma'gistrate for a summons against the fender. Applicant added that it had gone on for nine years, and he could lose his sleep no longer. Magistrate: But how does his lovemaking keep you awake? —The man: As he talks to the girl, at the halfopened door, lie taps with his kpjC -n the front doorstep, and it is gettfßKn my nerves.—Have you spoken td'him about it?—Y’es, but when I do he only abuses me.” The magistrate granted a summons for abusive language. * * * * Items of Interest. Milan is claimed to have set the fashion prior to Paris. Hence- the name, ‘ ‘milliner. ’ ’ A person with normal hearing should y be able to distinguish the licking of a watch five feet away. Laughter in excess may lead to a disease which causes the patient to remain in a cataleptic state for a short period. A greyhound racing track in which the hare will take hurdles and water jumps is to be opened at Southampton. A man suing his employer at Eastbourne for wages in lieu of notice admitted that he had had 2SB situations since 1913. A new wireless tower is to ir. Berlin. When completed it be twice the height of Eiffel Tower in Paris, and the light on the top of the . tower will be visible for one hundred miles. * # * * Summer Time. In England, says a Homo paper, most people experience a feeling of re- x grot when Summer Time e-omes to an end. There is practically no difference of opinion in trade circles as to the desirability of Summer Time. The effects are wholly advantageous, and thousands of traders and their assistants rejoice thgt the scheme has been made permanent by law. True there are yet opponents who advance strong objections to what they still term “meddling with the clock,” but their protests have ceased to be taken seriously. Prejudice notoriously die 3 hard, and it will probably be a very long time before the last is heard of the critics of Summer Time. So far as town dwellers are concerned, there is something like unanimity on the subject, and any proposal to curtail the privileges of the system opposed in a very determined Planner. The writer goes on to say: A good v many people are of the opinion that tlie dates ought to be extended, -but it is not likely that the Government will reopen the matter, the present -dates representing a compromise. The same may be said of Air AVillett’s full plan for advancing the clocks two hours in June and July. The advocates of Summer Time would welcome this, but will have to be content with what is achieved. It can be said without hesita- t tion that 1927 has demonstrated -once again the benefits of the plan. Summer Time has c-cased to be an experiment. It is a proved welfare measure.