BREEZES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 15 August 1931, Page 4

BREEZES

The Cure. “So you cured your wife of using her powder puff and lipstick at the restaurant table. How .’ ’ ’ “I took along my shaving outfit and produced it as soon as 1 saw her reach for her bag. ’’ * * * * Reversed. A New York judge ruled the other day that a married man ha*s a right to go downtown two nights each week. It is understood that shortly after the judge arrived home that even’ ig the ruling was reversed. New Uses for Wool. According to the “Yoikshirc Post’’ of a recent date, it is reasonable to assume that the use of wool, instead of declining, is much more likely to increase. Some remarkable new uses are being found for it, the latest of them being the manufacture of boot uppers. That Delicate Touch! ‘George read out from the newspaper: “Five hundred elephants are needed every year for making billiard balls.’’ “Fancy, George,” said Aunt Mildred, who was staying with them. “Isn’t it remarkable that such great animals can be trained to do such delicate work?” * * * 5 World’s Richest Street, Writing in the latest issue of the | Port of London Authority’s magazine, Mr A. G. Linney claims that “The Street of Tobacco,” running from Tidal Basin to Connaught Pioad Station, is the richest street in the world. Along it are thirty-two bonded warehouses, and in these (plus certain warehouses at King George V. Dock and at West India Dock) are stored more than 50,000 tons of tobacco. The value of this, with duty, is close on £60,000,000. * * * * Woman Hunter’s Chase. Armed with one of her husband’s revolvers, Mrs Powell-'Cotton, wife of Major P. 11. G. Powell-'Cotton, tho big game hunter and explorer, led a search over her mansion, Quex Park, Birching-ton-on-Scn, Kent, England, for a man, seen on the roof.

Mrs Powell-Cotton had herself been on hunting expeditions, and shot a lion, on her honeymoon.

Gardeners and other members of the staff surrounded the house under her directions, and the premises were searched from top to bottom. A man was found in an attic in a wing where Mrs Powell-Cotton had been sleeping alone.

China as Market for Wool. Great interest is being aroused in Melbourne following the announcement that the Chinese Government has adopted a definite policy concerning the use of wool for the army, .and is arranging for the establishment of woollen mills at a cost of £750,000. In view of the fact that it is not long since the Japanese Government began to take an active interest in woollen goods, and the remarkable change in customs in that country which has taken place, it is ■considered that there is tremendous scope for expansion of the sgle of wool to China, and it will not be surprising if, in the years to come, it is one of our best markets. During the past year the market was mainly supported by Japanees operators, and that country has more than doubled its purchases during the past three years. * * * * Girls Taller and Heavier.

After comparing the physical measurements of more than 500 girl students with those of their mothers, taken years ago, when they also u ere students, scientists of Harvard University, U.S.A., find in them an evolutionary to grow taller, broader shouldered, murower hipoed and heavier. It seems that the daughters of to-day surpass their mothers in every dimension except breadth of hips. They are, on an average, 1 1-10 inches tallei and 7-jlb heavier than their mothers at the same age, but their hips measure more than an inch less.

With greater chest expansion and lung capacity, and in other physical characteristics, the modern girl, says tho scientists’ report, is evolving “towards an accentuation of the masculine characters of body build.” Similar tendencies are noticed in young men who attend Harvard. They are taller and relatively more slender than their fathers, and have increased particularly in leg-breadth, shoulder-breadth, and thoracic circumference, but have decreased in hip-breadth. * * * * The New and Noiseless Paris.

The beating of carpets is henceforth to- be rigorously forbidden in Paris. The municipal commission against noise has so decreed. The beating of carpets and rugs or their shaking from upper storeys of apartment houses has already been forbidden after 9 a.m. The purpose of that interdiction was to prevent the air from becoming too vitiated with the carpet dust for the daytime street crowds. The new and complete interdiction of carpet beating is in the interest of suppressing unnecessary noises and is.part of the city s leeent campaign, to bring about a quieter, less nerve-wracking community. the commission also forbade the honking of automobile horns after 10 pan.,.and before 0 a.m. The original prohibition on automobile horns, decreed not so long ago, denied them a right to toot after 1 a.m. Then the deadline was moved np to 11 pan. It is henceforth 10 p.m. The time will soon come when honking automobile horns will be ruled out both day and night. When that day arrives the oarnivalesque racket that rises from Parisian traffic .tangles —Parisian automobile horns are primitive things, making a sound of about the quality and volume of a car nil al horn—wilf have gone the. way of so many other picturesque Parisian characteristics.