BREEZES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 28 January 1933, Page 4

BREEZES

Awkward. • • Young Ladv Helper (at jumble sale): “I have sold everything out of that room.” , ... Vicar’s AYife: “Oh, dear, dear; that was the cloak room.' ’ >, * * * *9k Two More. Hospital Alatron: “How’s this? The elephone message said you were bringing one accident’case, and you have brought three.” , Ambulance Driver: “That's all right. I knocked the other two down on the way. 7 ’ ■* * * * Fond of Consolation. Alother: “Did I see you kissing that young Allen last night ‘ Beryl: “Well, mother, he told me he had just lost an uncle, and I felt so sorry for him. 77 Mother: “If I know anything about that young man, he won't have a relative left in a week’s -time! • » _ • * * - Napoleon’s Elephant. Zara Aglia, the world’s oldest man, appears to have a rival in his claim to be the only creature now living who knew Napoleon, for Budapest is calling attention to the fact that it possesses an elephant which came into intimate contact with the Emperor. It is a native of Siam, and was given to Napoleon during his disastrous campaign in Egypt. He took it back to Paris with him, but it proved so wild and vicious that he presently packed it off as a present to His father-in-law, the Emperor of Austria, who placed it in the A ienna Zoo, where it again caused trouble, and was transferred to Budapest, where it has remained ever since. Reputed to be 150 years old, it has lost its youthful energy and spirits, and spends its days begging coins and cakes from visitors. * * * * Girl in Men’s Team. Aliss Lillian Mitchell, aged 21, of Tottenham, 'London, believes she is the only girl footballer playing in a man’s team. She is centre-forward of the Tottenham Motor Cycle 'Club’s team, which plays friendly matches in North London. She has not yet scored a goal, but that is lier ambition next to winning a cross-country motor cycle endurance trial. “I play in a men’s team,” she said, v “because there is no women’s football team in North London. I get hard knocks whenever I try to score, but that is nothing to be afraid of.” Aliss Alitchell is the only woman member of the Motor Cycle Club, too, and often takes part- in cross-country trials. * * * * Back to the Horse. A pronounced feature of the Christmas holiday traffic at Ballarat, Arictoria, was the extraordinary increase in horse-drawn vehicles, especially jinkers and buggies. A return was observed also to the old-fashioned method of picnicking by van and! waggon and cover-ed-in carts. Confirmation of the. revival of popularity of the horse was given -by a member of a firm of leather and harness merchants. He stated that 1933 had been one of the best years for some time i nregard to trade in harness of all descriptions. - There had been a big advance in orders for draught harness, and much old harness had bt*?n brought to life for reconditioning by farmers, whom economic conditions had divorced from tractors and other motor macliifl|<_ erv. Light harness had also sold fe- •« markably well, and more riding saddles hadbeen sold in the past- two years than for the previous twelve years. There was every indication of still better times in the harness and. leather trade.