BREEZES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 19 August 1933, Page 4

BREEZES

The'; Stretch, Bill: I hear your brother’s workin’ now/Sam. Sam: Yus. . ■ ... Bill: IToiv long’s he bin. workin ’ ? Sam: Three months. Bill: What’s he doin’? Sam: Six. * * * * Fond Parent.

She watched him gazing down at their first-born. Wonder, admiration, rapture, incredulity, chased across his face. She stole up and said tenderly: “Tell me your thoughts, dearest?”

“Darned if I can see how anyone can make that cot for fifteen shillings. ’ ’ * * * * Contents.

A teacher, instructing a class in composition, said: “Do not attempt any flights of fancy; be yourselves, and write what is in you. ” The following day a bright pupil handed in the following:—“We should not attempts any flights of fancy; rite what is in us. In me there is my stomach, lungs, heart, liver, two apples, one pieec of cake, three sticks of toffee and my dinner.” * * * » Sing It!

A stuttering sailor went to the captain on the quarter-deck and began to stammer a message. Impatient, the captain roared: “Go and commit what you have, to. say to poetry and come back and sing it. ’ ’ Two hours later the sailor came back and sang his message. It ran: Should auld acquaintance be forgot And never brought to mind. Tl ie cook’s washed overboard; He’s twenty miles behind. • * * * Schoolchildren’s Tours.

Eight hundred British boys, and girls of the School Journey Association, accompanied by their teachers and the band of the Dagenham Girl Pipers, went to Belgium recently on a five-day visit.

They were welcomed by a deputation of Ostend schoolchildren, one of whom delivered a welcoming speech in English. The party visited the Vindictive Memorial, and the girl pipers played a lament at the foot of the monument.

Nine hundred Belgian schoolchildren who visited London under an exchange arrangement, stayed four days. # #' * * Club Admits Women.

Male exclusiveness received a bad jolt at the Oxford and Cambridge Club, Pall Mall, London. For more than 100 years it has been the meeting nlace of dons and professors, and of Oxford. and Cambridge men who have become famous in law, politics and literature. Recently a movement was started to provide hospitality for women guests, and to the surprise of many old members a large majority voted for admission of the women. Steps were taken to make the furniture, equipment and decoration of the women’s rooms at the Oxford and Cambridge Club among the most artistic and attractive provided in any men’s club in London. 17 * * * * The Fog Eye.

Successfully tried out in its first sea tests qboard the liner Queen of Bermuda, a new marine instrument called a fog-eye reveals the presence of objects hidden by darkness, fog, smoke, or artificial smoke screens (says the “Popular Science Monthly”). . Shipping and naval officials see revolutionary possibilities for the remarkable instrument in peace and war. Perils of collision at sea, as a ship ploughs through darkness or fog, may be removed by She fog-eve. On the blackest night it is said to warn of an approaching vessel 15 miles away; to detect a menacing iceberg in time to avert. a disaster; and even to find a drowning man, struggling in the water, so that searchlights may be directed on him and rescuers may reach him. In time of war an eneniv ship stealing through the gloom with masked lights is found at once, and the sensitive eye will also warn of approaching aeroplanes or airships. The secret of the fog-eye’s power to see in the dark is found in a wellknown scientific principle. Every object that is warmer than its surroundings emits rays of radiant heat identical with the rays that stream from the familiar household electric heater. These rays pass easily through fog, smoke and darkness. Though invisible to the eye, they may be detected by an electric eye, or photo-electric cell, of sufficient sensitivity. It is such an eye that the inventor, Commander Paul 11. Macneil, of the U.S.A. Navy, has built into his instrument. Sweeping the horizon, it. reacts to any warm body it encounters, and its amplified signal operates an alarm. Any .object appreciably colder than its surroundings, such as an iceberg, also operates the alarm.