LIFE’S LITTLE WANTS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 3 July 1928, Page 4

LIFE’S LITTLE WANTS.

Road Paved with Gold. Engineers in Colorado have just completed a road which is to be known as the Golden Trail. It is only five miles long, but it appears that it has been built with waste ore from a gold-mine. While it is not commercially practicable to recover the gold remaining in this ore, it is estimated that the road contains £4OOO worth of the precious metal. * * * * Footballer becomes Parson. Jimmy Jackson, Liverpool’s famous right Rugby half-back, has become a minister of Shaw Street Presbyterian Church, Liverpool. “My appointment will not with my football career,” JaojkpP says, “and my theological studiesSJitl football training will run together.” Jackson has for years been a keen student of theology and preaches in his spare time. • * * * Women Pamiers. In England and Wales there are 20,000 women farmers. It must be admitted that many of these deal solely with poultry and rabbits, but others are of the usual kind, -with this difference, that there is, of course, more intensive cultivation in the Old -Country*, this characteristic making the more attractive to the sex. At meeting held recently in the Swansea Agricultural College for AVomen, the great numbers of such women farmers formed a tliemc for discussion, while a lady inspector pointed out that culture is the third industry in the country as regards the number of women employed. * • • • Ride on a Whale.. While fishing off the Donegal a coracle, two brothers, named iftcGarvev, had an exciting adventure. Suddenly their flat-bottomed craft began to move swiftly along, and the terrified men clung desperately to its

After going 50 yards, the coracle’s headlong career was checked, and soon it lay rocking gently on the calm water again. The brothers declared that immediately after the incident they looked over the side and saw the bulk of a huge whale vanishing into tho depths directly underneath their tiny boat. ***** Wireless Tramcar. ,*j The wireless tramcar has arrived in Washington, Air Alaurice J. Francill, an inventor, lias given a demonstration of a new radio control apparatus he has invented, by means of which it is possible to operate a tramcar without a motorman. The apparatus was contained in a small box, and the inventor, seated in a motor ear which was steered made the tramcar stop, go get up sped as he desired. Mr Franeill says that he hopes to develop his invention so that the wireless house, in which baking, sewing, sweeping and ironing can be clone by radio, will bimpossible. r * » * * * Chinaman’s Luck! A young lady took her little sister to the races, and a ferry trip was necessary. As the passengers were waiting to disembark, the younger of the twain noticed a Chinaman at the edge of the throng. “Oh!” she whispered. “They say it’s- lucky to touch a Chinaman If you’re going racing. I’ll try it.” She reached forward, but in doing so lost her balance and fell forward. The bump upset the Chinaman, too, and ho in turn bumped against a fellow countryman, who was standing close to the edge. Chinaman number two swayed perilously for a moment, but managed to recover li(s balance just when aIJBI in the briny Seemed Imminent. bland smile lie turned to the cause of all the trouble. “Chinaman velly lucky, eh?” lie said.

An Astute Politician. “Air Stanley Baldwin is perhaps the least assertive of ajl men in the House of Commons. He seems to have stumbled into leadership by the merest accident,” says a ‘Labour member, in an anonymous contribution to the “Sunday Times.” “He is surrounded by clever debaters, orators, and experienced politicians, and always seems to be half afraid that they may be the means of his undoing. Mr Baldwin disarms his opposition by seeming to be a little startled by the line of their attack and the challenge of their indictment; having just heard something unexpected, he proceeds laboriously to build his walls of defence. This slowmoving and hesitating method has on many occasions irritated the more impetuous of his followers and many of his opponents, the former (fljM ing it is evidence of indecision and later as an indication of confusion. But many of Air Baldwin’s critics are beginning to wonder if what they have taken to be a political innocent, stumbling by chance upon easy expedients, 1 is not, after all, a very astute tacticians and master of political devices. Ids-/ 1 tening to recent debates that have taken place in the House, one could hear all the florid oratory coming from the Opposition benches, and slow, halting phrases from the Prime Minister; but the impression on reading Hansard the next morning was that the orators had their display, but Mr Baldwin had the triumph.