BREEZES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 21 July 1934, Page 4

BREEZES

No Disadvantage. “Really, gentlemen,” said the election candidate, “with all this uproar I can hardly hear myself speak.” “Well, cheer up,” shouted a man. “You aren’t missing much.” * * * * Everything in This Car. Truth in advertising surely reached its limit in this extract from a list of week-end bargains published by a Canberra motor firm. “Bitzer utility. Chandler motor and chassis, Hudson diff., Buick spare wheel. A real wombat’s nest. Does Bungendore Hill on top (one way only, that’s not up). -Special centenary model. Also known as the Cold Six (when she’s cold it takes six men to start her). Take her at £8 the lot, -with Bolls Boyce radiator ornament thrown in. If she does not get you home we’ll tow her back, and the drinks are on us.” * * * 9 Powerful Lathe.

The installation of the most powerful lathe ever made in Britain was recently being completed at the Vickers works of hte English Steel Corporation at Sheffield.

Controlled -by 63 push buttons, the machine is capable of hoisting a 150-ton cylinder of steel in the air and shaving three tons of cutting per hour from it as it rotates.

The lathe’s electric system is amazing clever, but not complicated. It embodies many features never before attempted in heavy lathes. But it is practically foolproof. With the arrival of several more special machines, which are expected shortly, the machine department will become the most modern of its type i;i Britain. * * * The Stockingless Craze.

The stockingless craze is being combated by stocking makers in England just now, and they have several arguments other than their own interest to advance. They cite such big guns as ‘ ‘Che Lancet” and “The British Medical Journal” in support of the thesis that stockings are protections against dermatitis and the poison of insect bites.

On Mediterranean cruises they are necessary for social reasons; in the African ports bare legs are objects of derision, as meaning poverty, and of other comments which the owners are lucky not to understand. Spain, forbids stockingless tourists to land, in accordance with her strong desire to keep women where she thinks they ought to be, which seems to be somewhere in A.D. 1400. Another objection to the stockingless is that the human leg is not always as nice to look at in the flesh as when it has been painted on canvas by a master, or thrown on the screen by a good producer and a fine photographer. When in process of tanning it is positively a horrid sight. Town shoes on a bare foot never, look appropriate, and they carry with them an uncomfortable sense of how hard they must feel to the wearer. The knee-high stocking obviates the ugliness of metal attachments showing through thin dresses. Finally the “Nudie” stocking guarantees to look as though it weren’t there.