BREEZES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 20 October 1932, Page 4

BREEZES

Go Up One! Teacher: Borne plants and l lowers are called dog-violet, dog-rose, dog-wood, etc., by using the prefix “dog.” New naane me another. Stanley: Collie-llower. * * * * Ginger-Snaps. Conductor (helping stout lady on car): Ver slimild take yeast, motlici, ter ’elp ver to rise better. Stout Lady: Take some yerself, lad, and then ver’d be better bred. Strap-lianging! The lights in a crowded bus had failed. “Can I find you a s-trap.’” eiu|uircd a tall strap-hunger of a young lady who had boarded the bus at the last stop. “Thank you,” she replied, “but 1 have one already. ” “Then would you mind letting go of my tic.”’ he said shyly. # Machine to Produce Rain. The first machine in the world designed to produce rain artificial}' has been set up in (Leningrad. It is an electrical apparatus with a power of <o,ooo volts, and the general idea of rain production is to burst clouds by transmitting electrical currents into them. A second machine with a power of 200,000 volts is in process of construction. These machines will be mounted on a specialv constructed high tower. It is stated that experiments with artificially croated rain have yielded favourable results, and the significance of this discovery for agriculture, if it should prove practicable on a huge scale, is obvious. Curfew Ignored. RLpon, Yorkshire, is a town that defies the law once >a day and twice on Thursdays. For centuries past the curfew has been rung at even-fall in Ripon market square. And for centuries past the worthy townsfolk have stayed up long after that hour. On Thursday —market day no buying or selling is supposed to take place before 11 o’clock, but merchants and customers have persisted in doing business for an hour or so before the official opening time. And nobody cares. The men who framed.the laws are dust by this time. # * # * Hollywood Going Good. Hollywood is'going good. Sex plots are on the wane. The stars are having babies and telling the world about them. '1 he “morality clause’’ which figures in every contract is being ligidly operated. Even the once wild and glamorous “It” girl, Clara Bow, Is respectably married to a poor man and glorying in the dish-washing that accompanies her new ‘Sphere of life. Now in the midst of all this “decency drive,” a number of gangsters’ girl friends have been trying to- break hi-to films, but they have had their offensive arrested at the entrance gates of the studios. Borne film critics advance a. theory that the wave of respectability is attributable to declining -oox office returns. Marie Dressier has superseded Norma Shearer and Greta Garbo as unchallenged queen of the box offices. Close behind her comes Janet Gaynor. * * * * Judge on Dress. Some dicta from “Judicial Wisdom of Mr Justice McCardie”:— ■ The dress of a woman has been ever the mystery and sometimes the calamity of the ages. The ordinary society woman could clothe herself quite well for one-fifth of rhe money she now expends on dress. She-could buy a sufficiency of stout and long-wearing woollen or llanncl garments for a very small sum per annum. Cotton fabrics for the summer are extremely cheap. Nature lias decreed that leadership and physical strength and intellectual achievement shall belong to men, but. women are the chief decorations of social life. A reas-ouable indulgence in dress is is needed to counterbalance what I mai call the inferiority complex of women. Dress, after all, is one of the chief method's of woman’s self-expression. It is, 1 conceive, important to remember the singular and tonic effeit produced on a. woman by a new and attractive dress or coat or hat. a- * * * Hopeful Signs. More signs that the depression is over: — I.—Golfers are again using a ball that will be white when they wash it. 2 There are fewer fights on our best golf courses over the rightful ownership of old wooden tees. ;>—Shaiving cream tubes are not being pinched to the bitter end any more. -i—People are offering to pay your fare in the tram -again. s—Three-piece suits are no longer being advertised for the price of a pair of overalls. (j—Our best- families no longer have to be -careful about formal parties on account of the number of guests who steal bulbs from the electric fixtures. 7 —\y:hm a. debutante announces that she- lias become engaged, her parents take it more calmly than at any time in throe years, realising that there is a chance he lias money. S—“ All right; sue me!” is s-Dll being heard, -but it is no longer the voice of New Zealand. p—i Cigarette grubbing lias declined .00-2 in the last two months. 10—Tn. many homes wives are talking about new clothes once more. (And in some eases twice more.)