BREEZES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 13 May 1932, Page 4

BREEZES

Earth’s Starry Neighbour. Astronomers always are deeply interested when the tiny asteroid, Eros, swings close to the earth in its travels through the sky. That little heavenly body approaches closer to the earth than any other member of the solar system, except the moon, sometimes coming as near as 14,000,000 miles. Eros was rounded up and given a name by the Urania Observatory of Berlin in ISS9. Previous to that time it was only one of those objects in the heavens designated by initials. The last time Eros came within “telescope shot” of the earth, Dr. Paul A. McNally, of Georgetown University, was one of its most interested observers. * * * * Friendless Queen. King Carol of Roumania has denied the rumours of a possible reconciliation with Queen Helen arising from her reception at Bucharest with royal honours, which were in marked contrast with her earlier departure ■ from Roumania. with a. second-class ticket, ■Carol, Says the “Daily Mail’s*’ diplomatic correspondent, declares that no change in her legal position is contemplated. She is now visiting Bucharest to seek a readjustment of her allowance. Queen Helen receives an allowance of £BOOO a year, and recently requested that the capital ensuring this income should be invested abroad. Tne Government declares that it is difficult to obtain such an amount in foreign currency. Chestnut Nourishment. A Dannevirke resident directs the attention of the ‘ ‘ Evening News” to the nourishing properties of chestnuts, and supplies the following recipe for sauce: —Peel -?.lb chestnuts with a sharp knife. Cover with water in a saucepan and bring to the boil. Pour the • water away. Barely cover with hot water, and simmer until tender (about half an hour). Rub the chestnuts through a sieve or mash in the pan. Stir in a quarter pint of milk or cream and reheat. Season with salt and a pinch of cayenne. Serve with cooked vegetables It is sometimes easier to remove the skins after the chestnuts have been in the oven for 20 minutes with the tops cut off. The correspondent gives the following interesting comparison of the food value of chestnuts and potatoes: —Protein: Chestnuts 6.-, potatoes 1.8; carbo-hydrates, 42.1 14.(j fat, 5.4, .1; fuel value per lb, 1097, 290. *’* * * Should a Hairdresser Tell?

A wig, and the courtship of a middle aged landowner, who bore the title of “baron,” was recently the centre of a' novel legal problem. Is a hairdresser bound by the same laws of professional secrecv as a doctor? Alaitre Charles Denis appeared for the baron, and explained that his client, who lived on his estate in the country, had the misfortune to become bald very young. He had three wigs, and each in turn he handed to his Paris hairdresser to be kept in order. Recently the baron became engaged to be married, and he was very angry when one day he found that liis future bride had learned all about liis wigs from her maid. The. girl, he alleged, had been told by the hairdresser. The marriage was not broken off, the bride being sensible enough not to worry about her fiance’s baldness. But the baron demanded that the hairdiesser be fined to maintain the idea that a hairdresser must not betray his clients’ secrets. * * * * His Name Was Mud. Declaring that a report regarding wandering stock had been aimed at her “poor lame cow,” which roams a Haihour Board section at Alanawatu Heads, with a cow-bell attached to warn all .and sundry of her presence, Airs A. E. Aston wrote to the Alanawatu County Council recently in protest. She alleged victimisation on the part of a certain resident, who had circulated a petition, and that this person had urged boys to annoy her by slogging a cricket ball intp. the flanks of her pony and into her fence. “When the ball landed in the section I told them that I would ‘boot’ them for trespass,” continued Airs Aston. “The ball was immediately slogged on to the section again, and I confiscated yjq- _—senr., who had evidently put the boys up to this, was listening quite handy, and approached with a roar. ‘Abu hand that ball back,’ he roared at me. I informed him that his name was mud and that he was not in the picture, and asked him to fade away. He threatened he would get the ball himself, so I comirienced to roll up my sleeves and invited him to come right along. Aly invitation was not accepted, and he beat an undignified retreat, vowing threats to bring the police on to the scene. I told him he ought to run round with a petition to keep my old cow off the vacant section in daylight, when there are 13 cows poking about at night, none of them wearing bells to warn residents of their presence.” Airs Aston added that she had walked into one of these cows at night and it. was so full that it- “hadn’t a. decent run in it.” The cow kicked her on the leg and she attempted to return the compliment. The Council enjoyed a good laugh.