LIFE'S LITTLE WANTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 December 1927, Page 4

LIFE'S LITTLE WANTS.

An Excuse. A teacher in a country school . received the following excuse for nonattendance of her son at school recently: " Bill as Beliae.” It was some minutes before tlfe meaning dawned! * If- -if * Onion Eating. Doctor: "The secret of good health, my dear young lady, is onion eating.” Modern Young Lady: "I know all about that; but the trouble is • how to keep onion eating a secret.” * * * * A Proper Young Lady. Norma Shearer is always the proper young lady of the fine old family. She never laughs too loudly, or jjfcces too jazzily. Her corsage is of orchids, but not too many of them. She is cordial without being flutters". Norma is a credit to her family, her company, and her book of etiquette. N * * it * Boy Fire Hero. A 16-year-old boy, Aliles Bennett, jumped from a bedroom window with his sister Freda, aged six, in his arms when fire broke out in the Dyers’ Anns.,. Hotel, Dantzie street, Manchester, of which .is father is the licensee. Aliles woke about 3 a.m. to find his bedroom full of smoke, and awakened his father. lie then picked up Freda, climbed out of the bedroom window on to a ledge, 12ft above the pavement, jumped and lauded cleanly. "I looked out of the window,” Airs Bennett said, "and when I saw Aliles about to jump I screamed. He held upi Freda afterwards and shouted, ‘Look, we’re all right’.” The other members of the were rescued by the fire brigade. THiles also attempted, unsuccessfully, to rescue a dog. * * * * Alute Cured by Shock. The shock of falling into the canal at luce, near Wigan, has had the effect of restoring speech and hearing to a youth of IS, who had been deaf and dunib_ + - sinee an attack of measles when he was four years* old. Thomas Alcllugh, the young deaf mute, was saved from drowning by a - man amed James Smith, and while a parish priest was offering a thanksgiving prayer for his escape from death, the young man joined in in broken language. Smith, an unemployed Wigan miner, has been presented with the Royal Humane Society’s certificate for rescuing Ali-Hugh. He iias a notable life-saving record, having rescued no fewer than 26 people from drowning. This is the fifth occasion on whic-h the society has presented him with its certificate. * * * Motor Traffic. Addressing the 25th annual •goffering’ of the Society of Motor Manufacturers, the Home Secretary, Sir William ’’ Joynson-llicks, said there was no limit, ia his view, to the extension of motor traffic on highways, and therefore there could be no limit to the extension and improvement of the roads of the country. AVhile they improved the roads they should preserve the amenities of the countryside. Great efforts had been made to prevent those devastating advertisements which one sometimes saw when driving along the road or travelling by train. AVith the increase of traffic on the roads he presumed there would be an increase of garages and petrol-filling stations. The Ministry of Transport had offered a prize for the most beautiful petrol-filling station. What an* optimist! But one felt that it was not beyond the wits of the motor industry and the oil industry to invent something less hideous than tho ordinary red, yellow, green and blue filling stations which were increasingly dcsecrating the roads of the country. Referring to the regulation the Atilister said the question more than that of driving to the common danger, for there was such a thing as driving to the common annoyance of Ilis Afajesty’s subjects. That was the difficulty which they must get over. They must arrange among themselves r- higher and a better code of courteous driving throughout the country.