AT HOME AND ABROAD.

Auckland Star, Volume LVIII, Issue 221, 19 September 1927, Page 11

AT HOME AND ABROAD.

Miss Freda Sternberg, the well-known Australian and English journalist, has just gone to Contrexeville for a rest after the strenuous London season, writes our London correspondent. She is staying with Miss Isabel Ramsay (Madame Foa) at the French health resort. Later they intend visiting a number of European cities, Vienna, Prague, Munich, Salzburg, and Berlin, before Miss Sternberg returns to London for a fortnight's stay. Miss Sternberg then starts on a world tour of the Empire, and will, in due course, record her impressions in a book. In the meantime she will carry out a number of commissions*. for journals in England, Australia, and America. She leaves in October for South Africa, and will go right to the north of Rhodesia, and will then take British East Africa. She will cross to Karachi and, if time permits, will go up the Euphrates to Bagdad. Miss Sternberg will then tour India on her way to Australia and New Zealand. Miss Sernberg will be remembered in Auckland, which she visited in connection with the lecturing tour of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and again with Mr. Alexander Watson, but has been settled in England for some years.

The small skull-cap with feathers is being much worn in Paris, states "The Queen," and looks well , with the short, trim frocks now in vogue. Occasionally, it is of felt or supple crochet straw with the ear-flaps only of feathers.

Skirts for day wear remain short, records "The Queen," but there is a tendency for the evening dress to lengthen. Young girls especially are wearing longer skirts, though those past their first girlhood are loathe to adopt the long Bkirt which adds to their apparent age and is apt to give clumsiness to the silhouette. Almost all. skirt-hems, except those on sports frocks, are uneven.

Young girls thfs season in London are not wearing elaborate earrings. Indeed, they seldom wear earrings of any kind, says "The Queen," and when they do, they choose a pair which are attractive because of their design and colour rather than by reason of their costliness. Coloured stones set elose to the lobe have a becoming way of deepening the colour of the eyes, and a long ornament gives a more definite line to a clear-cut face.

When I met Lady Cynthia Mosley at a studio party she had on a dress of shot rose and other colours that I admired greatly, says a London lady. "Yes," she said, "but people will say I shouldn't have it because I'm a Socialist, I expect. It's Russian hand-woven silk, so anyhow it's a bit in the picture as they expect it. I believe they expect me to dress my parlourmaid up complete with Russian boots, and a scarlet handkerchief on her head."

It is said that Lord Beatty was the most popular First Sea Lord, there has ever been at the Admiralty, records "The Queen." Certainly he is adored by all ranks in the service, both ashore and afloat. At Reigate Priory, where he will spend much of his time in future, he has a workshop and carpenter's bench fitted up in the stables, so that he can indulge his hobby of carpentery, a taste he shares with other retired admirals, among them Sir Victor Stanley, Lord Derby's brother, who makes the most beautiful furniture for his own house.