Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-11
CONCERT
ACADEMY ORCHESTRA Friday, June 18th at Slater Hall
TICKETS 2ac FROM MEMBERS OR
 AT CRANsToN's STORE

thlng is that there should be even one. TOT when Sir Charles Barry designed that great structure hath rooms had scarcely been heard of. Until r1id-Vic- torian times the morning tub or the occasional hot bath was taken i'll the bed room, rather sloppy business. There are even now venerable inns in which you are offered a shallow. circular tank and a can of water if you order a bath. At the other end of the scale there are>hotels, particularly Tn America, boastin2 a private bath room to every bed room.
 "Ceeiiy," reproved the young mother, 1 eat your bread and butter properly How often do tell you to eat it with the buttered side topmost!
 Here the elderly physician entered a defence for the childish table manner | which every parent knows He point | ed out that by eating buttered bread upside down the butter touches the tongue, which thus get the full taste of the butter That's why children naturally do it. as also with bread and jam. Eat bread and margarine as you like in order to hide the flavor l but when it comes to bread and real butter l confess that. as doctor and 1 something of a gourmet, I eat it like a | child, huttered side down"
 1 # ever there was law that draws l the line between the rich and the noor 1 1t is surely the prohibition act of the | United States. When midnight of June l 50 strikes no more alcoholic drink may i he sold or manufactured or imported l But anyone may consume what stocks | he has in hand.
 l The wealthy man with his ample l cellars may accumuIH+~ enough wines 1 and spirits to last a v lime. and ap-
 parently he is doing It is an ironi- l cal circumstance that Americas de-
 termination to go "drv" after due mo- 1 tice, has, by speeding ur exports from Europe, caused shortage and l higher prices on this side of the At 1 lantic
 Was there in this country a more versatile man than Sir John Hav Mac | donald. who died suddenly last Friday ? to become lord justice cler'-. but keen volunteer officer. an inveotor of a hun
 dred valuable ideas, a delightful writer
 a pioneer in motoring. first rate
 golfer, and capital speaker
 He patented some of his best discov-
 cries, but others have been for the free use of the public. His death removes one or the most distinguished mem
 bers of the Catholic Apostolic church now small community.
 Mir. Parker is an advocate of wha,
 he calls corner furniture' He says
 that the English method is to put the
 principal pieces of furniture near the
 middle of the walls. The sideboard, fol
 instance, sticks out into the room, an6
 merely accentuates the corners eacf
 side, where there is nothing but chairs
 on which nobody sit. People do not
 as matter of fact, occupy the corners
 of rooms in a conventionally furnished
 house. They either sit up to the table
 in the middle or round about the fire
 There would be much more available
 space for the occupants to move in ii
 corner sideboards. corner bookcases
 corner writing tables and corner set. tees were used instead of those com.
 monly in evidence.
 The idea is not new. but it has no' been sufficiently exploited. Everyone
 who knows anything about old English
 furniture will remember the 18th cen.
 tury corner cupboards and washsta nds
 They save pace and give equal accom-. i modation to the more common type.
 Then there is the bed. What are tn,
 four posts for? They are simply