BREEZES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 14 January 1932, Page 4

BREEZES

Trouble! Brent: “You say your wife does’nt say much to you when you stay out late at night?” Bowling: “She doesn’t say much, but the trouble is she keeps on repeating it.” * * * * The Gold Standard. Fond Mother: “I hope my little darling has been as good as gold all day?” Nurse (au fait politically): “No, ma’am, he went off the gold standard about tea-time.” * * * * A Lettelr to Santa. Nobody ever writes to Santa -Claus after Christmas. Well, here goes:— Dear Mr Claus, —Just a line to let you know that you aren’t too popular at our place. Our youngsters say that you weren’t so good as you were a year or two ago. We told them you’d probably be better next year. You brought young Alfie a picture book, and you know perfectly well that lie wanted a bicycle. I know that bicycles cost, about ten times as much as books. I know that. And little Jessica wanted a great big mamma doll, and what did sho get—? A 2/6 tea-set. And what do you mean by kicking your toe against the bedstead and saying (well, you know what you said). The children told me all about it. You’ll be able to do better next year, eh? Well, I hope so! * * * * First of the Sun-Bathers.

The pioneer of sun-bathing was SO years old recently, and, because he has practised sun-bathing since 1893, looks about 60. He is Dr. W. MacGregor Reid, head of the Universalist Church, and one of the most romantic fighters for freedom in Britain. Dr. MacGregor Reid has wandered in disguise among Arab tribes, and battled with British landowners for the right of access to Stonehenge. He helped to pioneer the Social Democratic Federation, was a colleague of William Morris in the Socialist League, and, as a ship’s doctor played a part in the seamen’s strike 1890 and in the formation of the National Union of Seamen/ During a sojourn. in America, he ran as as a Socialist candidate for Congress. * * * * Tattooed Cheeks.

A new method of beauty treatment, involving the use of a tattooist’s needle for tinting the cheeks and lips to a permanent redness is now being practised, and women are flocking to the saloons of beauty experts to acquire lasting loveliness, states the Daily Mail. “This method of applying a permanent complexion is quite painless and most satisfactory,” Mr J. C. Bell, a Wigmore Street, W., beauty expert, S t fl. t Gel “First the complexion is mapped out on the cheeks, which are then frozen with a local anaesthetic. Then, with an electrical needle, the old tissues of the cheek are dispersed, and each tiny pore has a quantity of harmless vegetable colouring inserted "into it. The cheek is shaded like a picture, and the tint particularly suited in the client is applied. » * * A Hct Region.

One of the hottest regions of the earth is along the Persian Gulf, where little or no rain falls. At Bahrein the arid shore has no fresh water, yet. a comparatively numerous population contrives to live there, thanks to the copious springs which burst forth from the bottom of the sea. The fresh water is got by diving. The diver, sitting in his boat, winds a great goat skin bag round his left arm, the hand grasping its mouth; then he takes m the right hand a heavy stone, to which is attached a strong line, and thus equipped he plunges in and quickly reaches the bottom. Instantly opening the bag over the strong jet of fresh water he springs up the ascending current, at the same time closing the bag, and is helped aboard. The stone is then hauled up and the diver, after taking breath, plunges in again. The source of these copious submarine springs is thought to be in the green hills of Osman, some five or six hundred miles distant.