BREEZES

Wairarapa Daily Times, 13 April 1935, Page 5

BREEZES

Eqrly Hours. Voice from dad’s room (2 a.m.): “This is no time to come home, Betty. ’ ’ Betty: “Sorry, darling; but it was such a dull party 1 left before it was finished.” * * * » Easy Course. They were discussing the education of their children. “What’s your boy going to be when he finishes at Oxford?” asked one. “An octogenarian, I fear,” the other replied. * * * * Costly Caricatures. Ahmed Hassan, chief editor of the Egyptian magazine, “Rosa El Youssef, ” has discovered that caricatures can be very expensive. The Egyptian courts have sentenced him to three months’ imprisonment, with stay of execution, and a fine of £SOO for publish-, ing an article and caricature defamatory to the Sultana of Zanzibar, and a fine of £5 for publishing a libellous caricature of Herr Hitler.

The Shropshire Horse

Members of the Auckland Hospital Board studied with puzzled faces an item, “Shropshire horse, £200,” which appeared on a list of proposed items of capital expenditure for the coming year. It was necessary for the medical superintendent, Dr. J. W. Graven, to explain that a “Shropshire horse” was a special operating table used in orthopaedic cases, particularly for fracture of the leg and certain spinal troubles. It allowed the patient practically to be suspended in mid-air, and it was also posible to carry out N-ray examinations while the operation was in progress. There were 118 orthopaedic cases in the hospital at the present time, said Dr. Craven. Operations were frequent, and a “Shropshire horse” would be of the greatest assistance to surgeons.