@nce again a correspondent shows that one man's meat is another man's poison—or, in plainer. terms, tone man's amusement may be another's torture, This consideration specially applies to the vexed ques-lon of noises in the hot weather, when wide open windows and other accidental and incidental elreum= ances make the weary resident all foo well aware of what is going ound in the noisy world around Alm. A dance, band gives enormous plea sure {0 those who seek to forget the heat in the contortions of the rhumba. A cinema in the open-alr—provided the mosquitoes can' be coneillated—effectually drives away the horrors of rising temperatures. But for workers Ju the neighbourhood In the daytime and for would-be sleepers fat night, these amenities have their Grawbacks, The problem should not be insoluble, Dancers have a right to dance and bands 10 play; cinemas fare also benefactors in their Way. Perhaps august. authority. which 1s dept in compoling differences can apply some gentle measures of contro} to make both parties happy.
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