Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Saturday 22 December 1928, page 11


FROM FAR & NEAR

GOAT AS LIFE SAVER.

sent long ago we had some discussion

M 1 the belief that a goat kept with _ in their stables acted as a preventive b f t d_S~ (writes "Peter Simple" in

station "Morning Post"). Now I see ' ' Moment of Captain E. G. Fairholme, 'e, RSPC-V./tliat the old custom has

" a practical use in case of his, since if 'we St M donkey-both animals "K îrAly managed be kept in the A horse terrified by the flames may "Seed to follow out their animal friend. fe - it was that the goat has a useful I J' ii, iii the stable, though not the one

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BLONDES PREFERRED.

/afflCAGO business men have been (j tabulating their opinions on their essence with dark and fair girls as office

'li the' statement issued is true many trails of firms deliberately choose blondes all of their capacity to work hard and Sir. Brunettes apparently are wanted S. for routine work, which makes less lid on the imagination. One resident

a famous company wntes:-r'In our 1. in have 75 girls, of whom 38 are ES mips They work harder and are quicker, kt we keep a few brunettes because they do careful plodders."

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RICHEST PLACE. IN THE

WORLD.

i LONDON "Daily Mail" special corroA spondent has succeeded in visiting the closely-guarded great new diamond field of SiDiaqualaml, Cape Colony. The elaborate series of the field, the profound secrecy romancing it have been pierced, and the wonderful area studied in detail.

He field is now patrolled by armed men who have to deal with some of the Boat'ileni-iate "crooks" in the world. IBU,- arrests have been made.

The field is said to be of almost fabulous real-life much so that only a fraction of the diamonds found on it are allowed to reach the market. _

"EVELYN" AS A NAME.

EVELYN" is not uncommon as a man's

name, but it is so much commoner u a woman's name that one instinctively supposes anyone bearing it to be a woman (from London "Evening News" writer).

Mr. Evelyn Garth Moore, younger son of li. Honour Judge Moore, passed his bar but animation the other day only to find himself i f erred to as the only woman in the list of successful candidates.

Mr Evelyn Waugh, the novelist brother of Mr Alec Waugh, the novelist, and Mr. John Graham, Princess Mary's hiogra

ther are too Kvclyns commonly referred to 1 a "-lie" by innocent readers.

CHILD WHO WANTED TO

BE A PRINCESS.

AN amusing letter from an Australian

child who wanted to be a princess was read at the League of Remembrance dinner in London last month.

Princess Beatrice was present, and in proposing her health Mr. Patrick Hodgson, the Duke of York's private secretary (according to a report in the "Daily Chro-nicle") said that while the Duke and Duchess of York were on their Australian tour a little girl wrote to the Duchess. Her letter ran:

My Dear Duchesses am only five years old, and I want to ask you a question. I want to be a princess and marry a real duke like you. Do

tell me how It is done. I should love to be a princess, and it must be such fun, and Mummy Bay-a a princess does a lot of good,

"Some of us here wonder if it is such fun being a Princess," added Mr. Hodgson.

SPANISH GOLD.

TWO adventure-loving women and a

retired army officer have completed plans for a sea hunt which may solve once and for all the problem of whether the Almirante de Florencia, the Spanish galleon which sank in Tobermory Bay, on the west coast of Scotland, in 1558, really does contain vast Armada treasures.

- The leader of this fascinating expedition is Colonel E. N. Foss, of London, who for years has taken an interest in the sunken galleon, and has tried more than once to reach its ancient decks. He is now over 70, but even so he does not consider himself too old to do a hit of diving when the occasion demands.

The women who are to assist him in the coming adventure are both financially interested. One of them is Lady 13. FoxPitt, daughter of Sybil, Marchioness of Queensberry; the other is Mrs. Margaret Leask, the wife of a retired naval officer. She lives at Dymchurch, Kent, and has one small son.

"I don't think anybody has actually seen the vessel since it sank in Tobermory Bay over three centuries ago," said Mrs. Leask to a press representative. "But treasures have already been recovered from it-coins, silver-plate, and so forth - and pieces of guns and quantities of gunpowder have also been brought to the surface.

"We shall spend at least a month working on the galleon, and two or three thousand pounds will be needed if the work is continued for two or three months. The galleon lies under the sea 85 yards from the steamer pier in Tobermory Bay."

Lady Fox-Pitt said that the expedition was being conducted by a small private company, of which she is a shareholder.

THE KING'S SLIP.

THE King had his arithmetic corrected

by a disabled ex soldier

According to a London " Daily Mail ' report His Majesty, with the Queen, was making an admiring inspection at the Imperial Institute South Kensington, of all manner of household goods produced by disabled men at ex-service industrial even ties He stopped to speak to Mr W H Whit-ham, formerly a private in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and now working in the Sheffield Painted Fabrics manufactory

Mr Whitham explained that he was paralysed down one side, the result of a head wound in 1915 His uncle had in vented a special church to enable him to get about He added that he joined the army

in 1914

"And how old are you now'" the King

asked him

hills by two sir," he replied

' Then," said the King, you joined up when you were 17''

"No, sir," the ox soldier responded, smil-ing apologetically ' Four teen years ago would make me IS"

" Yes, you are quite right " the King admitted, with a laugh It seems," he added, "I must be a bad scholar!"

SEA FIGHT COMEDY.

THE story of a single-handed battle

between Peruvian and British warships in the Victorian days, and its end was told by Admiral Sir Herbert Heath to sailors at the Liverpool Seamen's Institute. "I went to sea in 1874," said the admiral, and fought my first battle in 1877. It was a terrible affair between one British and one Peruvian man-of-war in the Pacific. We banged away at each other all day without doing much damage, because the gunnery was not so good then as it is now. Night came on, and it (got too dark to light, so our fellows thought it would be a good idea to fill our ship's steam launch with gunpowder, run her up against the enemy, and explode her. They started to do this, but when they found the Peruvian ship up against the shore they thought they had better hail her to make sure she was the right victim. So they shouted 'Ship, ahoy!' and were amazed to hear a raucous voice answering, This is the Mary Jane, of Cardiff,' full of

coal.' "

"After, that," concluded the admiral, our men decided they were better off at home, and returned to the British battle-ship,"

SURGERY'S PROGRESS.

THE nature of the new antiseptic said

to have been discovered by Dr Eidinow, of the British National Institute of Medical Research, will be awaited with in merest by surgeons the world over (says the London 'Lv curing Stendal d") Lister, of course, was the first to practise and Septic surgery, and the first antiseptic was carbolic acid Lister's discovery revolutionised surgery, and made possible the wonderful surgical work of to-day Asepsis came next, and was a big step forward both for the safely of the patient and the comfort of the operator There must be men living to-day who 0]>crata2d in mackintoshes under a heavy carbolic spray, and within the last 20 years instruments were boiled and placed in a solution of carbolic acid The condition of the hands of assistants after passing the instruments from this solution to the surgeon sometimes for hours at a time-is still a painful memory to many a practitioner

SLEEP AND BE HEALTHY.

have waited me too soon, I must slumber again,"

Dr Ratta (adapted)

DR STELLA CHURCHILL, repeating

the saying that a man slept six hours, a woman seven, a child eight, and a fool nine, remarked at the Institute of Hygiene, London, recently, "I am glad to say I am numbered among the fools." After the age of three human beings did not require daylight sleep, except on Sunday s, when the national bad habit of over eating made them drowsy The more one ate, more sleep was required for an average person Di Churchill advocated between eight and nine hours'' sleep Growing children should sleep on a hard mattress, and the bed should never be placed against a wall

' One's judgment is impaired by lack of sleep Gills have man led the strong man and refused to carry the right one because their judgment has been at fault following sleepless nights Men go to bed in pyjamas buttoned up to their neck, and they did not so healthy for it Women, who wear lighter night attire, derive a benefit from it

"People should not he wakened from sleep," said Mr Churchill "We are still suffering from the mid Victorian idea that there is something shameful about being asleep, as exemplified in the hymn about the sluggard who is disinclined to take up I think an association for the abolition of breakfast bells in bond ding schools should be formed The effect of being wakened rudely is to jar the nervous system and leave the person thus wakened unfit to face the troubles of the day "

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GREATEST GAMBLER DEAD. ARNOLD ROTHSTEIN, the greatest

gambler in the United States, died several weeks ago, and took the secret of his mysterious death with him But if the

police (says the New York correspondent of the "Daily Mail") have so far failed to leave who fired the shot which fatally wounded Rothstein, they have uncovered a story which lies behind the shooting, which will go down as one of the most remarkable in gambling history.

Rothstein was shot because he "wished" on a debt of £00,000 lost at cards during a two days' game played last September. It was a game that cost Rothstein £2,000 an hour, and when he rose after making his last bet he said quietly, "Some of you play cards with more skill than honesty."

The retort came back swiftly, "You'll pay, don't worry about that." "Rothstein did not pay with money; but now he has paid with his life.

All were gamblers known the world over,' and the game was Stud Poker-four cards up and one down-the swiftest kind of poker ployed. Belting began at £20, and then rose to £200. Liquor was served, and the air was thick with smoke, but no words, except the sharp side of the players, were spoken. Rothstein, who never drank or smoked, was playing the game of his life. But he could not win. He began side bets of £200 on the turn of the card while shuffling was on. Days came and passed into night, and still Rothstein lost and continued his side bets. He made it £400 on the highest card of all while watching carefully the other players. If he learned andt li ing he said nothing until his debts stood at £00,000. Then he left, saying, "I'm through, and for how much have you boys taken me?"

Rothstein would bet on anything, from Wall street stocks and theatrical produc-tions down to the age of a woman or the odd and even numbers, of a passing motor-car Thousands know him by sight, but few intimately. His table at Landy's restaurant was the silent witness of strange transactions, often running into thousands of pounds. He won £175,000 on a single days racing 10 years ago. With a net ve of steel he was fearless, with it is reported, but one love besides gambling-that for his dark-eyed wife, to whom he was devoted

SKIRTS AND SLEEVES IN

PALESTINE.

A POSTER which recently appeared in the Hebrew on Jerusalem hoardings has been translated and reproduced in the London "Jewish Chronicle." It reads as follows:

Listen, O our dear sisters, and may your

souls live!

I would ask of you a small question: Is the honour of the Jewish nation precious in your eyes? is the honour of our Holy Land dear to you? Doubtless you will answer with a strong affirmative, it, however, your reply comes from a genuinely and truly pure heart, why do your actions believe your words? Why do you parade the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem with naked arms and uncovered heads? Shame and confusion cover our faces at the sight of this accursed and contemptible fashion, disgraceful even outside our own land. Within the precincts of our land, especially in Jerusalem itself, the Holy City, such offensive dress is a desecration of the glory,

of God and of the nation.

Not only do you find yourselves thereby, but you also cause others to sin, and you will have to stand before the Great Tribunal in the same place as Jeroboam, the son of Ncbat, who sinned and caused others to sin, and whose name has remained a symbol of disgrace and everlasting shame. By- this your act you murder your brethren, body and soul. Is it worth, dear daughters, the risk of the lives of yourselves and your brethren, merely for the sake of a paltry, imaginary pleasure?

Every true daughter of Israel, the line of whose descent is to be traced directly to Abraham, our father, will surely confess that she has hitherto erred, and will re-lient completely for past wrongdoing, and will remove the filthy garments which have made our people a shame and a laughing stock among the nations, and from this day onward will put on modest garb.

God-fearing maidens will henceforward clothe themselves with the garments of glory, as worn by our mothers, and little girls must be trained to wear their sleeves down to the greater part of their hand, and their skirts to cover the greater part of their legs.]

The poster is signed by him that writes with broken heart and tearful eyes, your brother who loves his people and his land with unbounded love, and wishes you a happy and sweet year."

GOOD TEA A HEALTH

DRINK. FOR the first time in history the poorer

classes in Great Britain had during the war the opportunity of drinking good tea and of realising the great advantage which the best friends afford. Up to that time those with limited means purchased cheap teas and, as is usually the case (writes the eminent physician, Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, in the London "Daily Mail"), they obtained an inferior article.

In the war those in charge of the ration-ing of the nation blended indiscriminately teas of all sorts, and this blend was sold to the people at 2/8, many of whom had never previously tasted really good tea. In consequence of this the habit of drinking tea became more widespread, so that at the present time very much more tea is drunk by the community than before the war indeed the increase is nearly 30 per cent.

People have learned that it is not economical to buy an inferior tea, but that the best tea used in reasonable quantities affords the most delicious brew.

Good tea can do nothing but good, provided it is not allowed to stand sufficiently long to permit of the extraction from it of the harmful tannin.

' That tannin is most deleterious is shown by the prevalence of cancer of the gullet in Australia, where the habit was to stew tea in a "billy" or kettle for hours, and to drink it all day long. The result of this was the tanning of the lining membrane of the gullet, whose leathery consistence opposed the free passage of food, and the consequent chronic irrita-tion resulted in the frequency of cancer

in this situation.

"Wisely used good tea is a most beneficial and stimulating healthy beverage. inferior tea which has stood too long is most deleterious to health.

It is necessary that this fact should be instilled into the minds of the people, especially of those to whom money is a serious consideration. Many of the labour-ing class depend largely upon tea, and the more they have recourse to tea the less likely are they to consume alcohol in excess. Let them realise, as is always the case, that the best tea is the cheapest and most economical in use in the long

run.

Tea is the cheapest drink obtainable, since 200 cups of tea can be made from lb the difference in the cost of a cup made from good tea and that from an inferior variety is almost infinitesimal.

I'rlnteil anal l*ublM>ral by Cronan BULL, at "The

"ruin" allies, RM Elizabeth street, Melbourne', for WILMOT and ilvcinvaON, proprietors.