BREEZES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 10 May 1932, Page 4

BREEZES

A Bald Fact. A fly was walking with her daughter over the head of a very bald man. She said: “How things' change, my dear. When I was your age this was only a footpath.” : ■ * * * stDirty Work at the Crossroads. “That’s terrible!” “Mercy! ” 1 ‘ Horrors! ” That is what a- husband hears his wife murmur at her end of the telephone. He no longer worries. She is merely talking'with her sister about a dress which seems a trifle too long. * * * * 1500 Years Old Bell. The famous iron mass bell of St. Patrick will be used when the Papal Legate celebrates Mass in Phoenix Park, Dublin, on 26th June, during the International Eucharistic Congress. This treasured relic, which rests in a beautiful shrine in the National Museum, in Kildare Street, Dublin, is about 1500 yearsold, and is mentioned in many historical documents. On the morning of the Mass the bell, which is of iron, bronzed inside and out, will be taken under special -supervision to Phoenix Park. In commemoration of the congress the Irish' Free State will issue special 2d and 3d postage stamps. * * * * A Good Samaritan. A fine human story is to be told about those men Who came up to the Parapara relief camp from Wellington recently. The men were penniless when they left Wellington. Some of them were actually hungry men. By the time, they reached Marten the men were famished,but no provision had been made to supply the men with a meal. It was a little waitress in the Marten railway station tearooms who went and got,the boys out of the train, gave them tea and sandwiches, and had the cost booked up against her wages. Hustle in lowa. Swiftly moving justice wrote the elos ing chapter in lowa’s most spectacular bank robbery of recent years, when four men were sentenced to life imprisonment for the robbery of £21,000 the previous day from the City National Bank. The men, Clifford Edwards. “2. f'f Clinton, and Guy Edward Morris, 19 Erly Jeffries, 19, and Lester Stanley, 28, all of Louisville, pleaded guilty before Judge A. P. Barker. “Wo might as well admit it was a foolish thing to do,” said Edwards, after Judge Barger gave them a brief lecture on the futility of crime. It was their first venture in crime,” they said. Within eight-, hours after the robbery they had been captured by hastily organised vigilantes and peace officers in small towns, and all the loot recovered. Late in the day the four were taken to the State Reformatory at Anamosa to begin serving their terms. »*4 * *

New Cotton Cloth. . Lancashire has produced a new wonder —a cotton cloth which is warmer than wool, and as fine and as light as silk,, and which adapts itself to every climate.; It has uses varying from polar expeditions to the golf course. \ Taking morb than ten years to produce, says the “Manchester News,” the cloth was brought into being by an enquiry from Sir Wilfred Grenfell for an ideal material for the sub-Arctic dimes of ‘ Labrador, which would be windproof, snowproof and coldproof.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell’s requirements, which have been met, to suit the needs of his mission workers, were: —That the cloth must be light, because travel in Labrador is all done on foot, following the dogs; it had to be durable, for once on the trail the wearer’s life might depend on it; it had to be thoroughly showerproof to turn -both rain and snow, and windproof .to retain the wearer’s warmth; above all, it had not to be perspiration-proof, but must allow the body moisture to escape, and there must be no rubber in the proofing.