IDEAS FOR SCARVES.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 326, 13 October 1908, Page 3

IDEAS FOR SCARVES.

The alluring scarf is to remain ,With-usyet awhile'.- Sa3 T s'a woman from England:—l havo seen it lately, in .white tulle, . lightly embroidered with trailing sprays Vof 'flowers. Done like this, in coloured silks, it has a quaint air about it, especially .when'fringed with silk •to match. In pale tilllcs,' worked with silver, it is exquisite. A bright green tulle 'scarf worn recently. over a' white! dress was worked with tiny emerald green'.seqiiiris, while a white-one was edged with'dangling crystal, drops. . Another, in smoke grey, was embroidered with dark grey'pearls. .

There is-(says an Australian paper) an Atalanta in Yarravillo—though her name in her present incarnation" is Irish arid not Greek. The lady is so devoted to. athletics that sho is president of the crickiit club, vice-president of tho football club,' and a generous supporter of the coursing club. Her. football team has great hopes of winning the junior football, premiership . this year. They feel like people of the'days of chivalry, especially since an admiring newspaper, in a romantic fit of poetic language, called them "Miss Kelly's knights of tho inflated spheroid," A lady who visited Fanning Island (the dot in tho Pacific Ocean reached by the lifeboat, from the shipwrecked Aeon), on . her way from America about two months ago, describes it as very fkt indeed (writes "Marcia" ill tho "Australasian"). The island, ■ nine , miles long and not half that breadth, is easily missed by steamers even when they set out to look for it. Cases arc frequent of vessels giving up tho :se'arch for the littio island. "Just a bunch of palmtrees sticking out of the sea, it seems, as you approach it." Tho Pacific cable station consists of two or three bungalows, with wide vorandahs, built near tho beach, and very picturesqiio it is. There aro a few nativo huts, but-the natives do little bartering with tho ships that occasionally call at tho island. Tho Marania, from Vancouver, called last voyara.out to Australia to land a new "cabfo" man,, his wife, and child, who ivere going out tliero for a term of two years. They were welcomed on tho...bench (when after four hours' search the Jfarama did pick up Fanning Island) by another "cable" man, a resident for somo time, and his wife. Two young "officers" from tho Station, having spent two.years there, came to Brisbano in tho .Marania, tho steamer waiting at tho island a few hours only.' Theso young men declared that getting back to civilisation! oven shipboard civilisation, seemed . very strango indeed, after so long on tho tiny island in. tho middlo of the ocean. I'ero Rougier, formerly a priest, who has interests in tho cophi-producing island, camo on as. far as Suva.'