NOTES OF INTEREST.

Waikato Times, Volume 105, Issue 17611, 16 January 1929, Page 5

NOTES OF INTEREST.

AMUSEMENT FOR PASSENGERS. The Paris subway system, the Metropolitan, is to provide moving pictures for its passengers. Lantern projectors arc to be fixed on the roofs of the coaches, and during the journed Ihese projectors —there will be two on each car —will ttirow constantly changing pictures on the wails of the dark tunnels. Each lantern, which will operate automatically, will be provided with 81 pictures so that each carriage will he capable of giving 324 projections. Passengers will he provided with an unaccustomed form of entertainment, while some national advertisers will benefit.

THE STAGE CHARWOMAN. The stage charwoman has probably influenced everyone’s idea of the patient worker, who commences to scrub and dust when for most people the homeward trail commences about 5 or G p.m.: and who is just taking off her apron before the doors arc opened again at 9 a.m. Of course, she does not spend all night at the job, but, realising that the charwoman has the same troublous matters of fares and travelling distances as the rest of the working world, a meeting was held in London recently to consider such items. Armed with brushes, brooms, and dustpans, nearly 4000 lined up; that number alone is employed in the Whitehall offices, and their homes are scattered all over London.

THE AMATEUR AIRWOMAN

Mrs Haden Guest, wife of Dr. Iladen Guest, who was in Sydney a little while ago, has published a new book, ‘‘The Yellow Pigeon,” based on the authoress’s experiences while nursing and organising infant welfare centres during the war. Mrs Guest is one of the growing army of amateur airwomen, and is at present having flying lessons at Stag Lane. So far she has only been up eight times, and she grudges the time that her busy life steals from flying practice. Her great delight would be to own a Moth ’plane, but this, she says, is still a wild dream.