FATHER AND DAUGHTER.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 242, 12 October 1929, Page 4 (Supplement)

FATHER AND DAUGHTER.

The new Prime Minister seems to be very happy in his children. I have been in St. James' Park one or two mornings lately when he and his younger daughter and his M.P. son have been taking their before-breakfast stroll, and there seems to be the jolliest relationship between all three of them. Most of Mr. Mac Donald's friends know how very much he relies these days upon the sympathy and companionship of his eldest daughter, Ishbel —even more than he did in the days of his 1924 government. Ishbel Mac Donald promises to become very much the type of woman that her mother was. Before Mrs. MacDonald's death her husband looked to her in everything which he undertook. Her death made all the difference to his life, his work, and his attitudes to men and things. Now Miss Mac Donald is taking her mother's. place more and more, and her father is finding happiness in her companionship. LADY OXFORD'S "JOB." Lady Oxford does nothing by halves. Since she began operations at her London house as an adviser in matters of interior decoration—a subject in which she has always been interested and with which, she has made herself fully acquainted in a practical way—she has found her working days crowded with appointments, and has been surprised many times at the great interest which women of all types take these daye in questions of home-making. In order to give her friends and her clients an opportunity of seeing new ideas in the smaller details of furnishing and decorating, and to demonstrate also how thorough is her own interest in her job, she gave up her reception rooms one day last week to a delightful display of what housewives would call the etceteras of furnishing. Much beautiful linen was among the exhibits, and one gathered chiefly that there is a movement to bring table-cloths back into fashion and to demonstrate the decorative, qualities of the towel. - ''- ~~~ ■ ■ ' CHARM OF MISS HELEN WILLS. Lady Astor: invited all kinds of celebrities to meet Miss Helen Wills, who charmed everyone by her composure and perfect manners. She insisted upon playing lawn tennis, and a very bad player was provided for her as a handicap in a double game. Afterwards she took on two single sets with very fair players, but did not or perhaps could not allow either of them to win a game. Miss Wills is like a Greek goddess, straight, strong and commanding. She has the forehead and nose in the straight line so characteristic of the ancient Greek statues. Perhaps she derives from her Norse blood, for her mother was Norwegian. Her father came originally of British .stock. She is interested in a lot of things besides tennis. For instance, she -intends to finish her college course and take her B.A. degree. A distinguished company watched the unequal games, and applauded their friends' .discomfiture ironically. Among them were the Duchess of Devonshire, the-Duchess of Roxburgh, Lacly Alexandra Metcalfe and her 'husband, Mr. George Bernard Shaw and others. ; WOMEN CHANGE COLOUR. Paris is evolving a new complexion. A friend just back from France tells me that women are changing colour and the very smartest , thing in Paris to-day is to have golden hair and a deep brown skin. Cosmetics, lipsticks and powder are' being produced in this new shade, which is partly due to the influence of the . fashionable sunburn . which is acquired at the smart places. In Paris, however, this new face fashion is called "Complexion a la Josephine Baker," Josephine Baker being the popular coloured cabaret performer. Everything is done to accentuate this complexion when once acquired—either at-the seaside or by .purchase..' Dead white is worn, strings of pearls are twisted round the arms and sometimes even the. hair is bleached, • . :.

• ■ BATHING WIGS. .': At first sight it may seem of little importance that this or that particular idea in bathing dress fashions should be popular, but from the purely commercial point of view this is wrong. This year' the.business done in bathing dresses by British manufacturers has been extraordinary,' and has to be reckoned in thousands, not hundreds, of pounds. The latest novelty is the- "bathing wig." It is a bathing cap which is covered with water-proofed silk threads made up in the same way as the silk wigs which are frequently worn with modernist fancy dress. Natural colours are not adhered' to, and the wig is made in any bright colour, silver, beiiig one of the most popular. The bathing wig is said to be more becoming. than any ordinary cap. •\ . ARTIFICIAL HAIR. wXi, before has false hair—artificial wornV« he + m^ ern title-been so frankly ne^fasMoVf 6 P i' eSent time > whe » l? 2^ art women" to assist that then- Care not at all is. -There What it, .port., an for the evening and ST, «? Bwa °»e for travelling. ?igg Sfe for quite a "moderattfV ottlft des^ tbed as smart woman will hav P «\ ■ '■ - veally this , so that.she nmv se U n rtl S?tS larly.to her haiT^^Sn^fe