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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLI, Issue 3, 15 July 1908, Page 9

A young man stepped into a drug store and asked the clerk for a postage stamp, and at the same time produced a very bulky’ looking envelope. He handed this to the elerk, and asked him if he would kindly put the stamp on the letter. The clerk did so. Then the young man told him to twist it just a little to the

left. The elerk then asked, him why he was so particular that the stamp should be on in that position. Whereupon the young man replied: “I belong to Brown’s Correspondence School, and that is our college yell.”

The regulation of the atmosphere is a serious future problem for cities that is foreseen by Dr. H. Henriet, of Paris. His experiments have proved that in a large city, especially if in a valley, the lower layers of the atmosphere are stirred by the winds, but are not renewed as rapidly as they are devitalised. Oxygen is being withdrawn more rapidly than replaced. The effects upon the inhabitants are marked, though never assigned to the true cause, and include inferior physical development, nervous disorders attributed to the strain of competition, weakened vision, and even psychological results—like violent acts of a mob that are absent in oxygencharged air. The need of the city is a new, better, and brighter atmosphere.