WELLINGTON GIRLS

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 256, 25 July 1936, Page 6

WELLINGTON GIRLS

Dress Well, States American Visitor One visitor from the United Slates who has no complaint to make concerning the dress or the artificial complexions of the New Zealand gins is Miss Miriam Sylvester, a school teacher from the State of Minnesota, at present in Christchurch. She even went bo far as to say that the natural complexions! of many of the girls were more pleasing than those in other parts of the world where an addiction to cosmetics was very much in evidence. She had this observation to make that tho Sydney girls could show a few points to the Auckland girls in the matter of dress, but Wellington swung the balance back to New Zealand again. She was not impressed with the Auckland styles, but she qualified her remarks by saying that cold rainy days during her stay there might have prejudiced her outlook. She had not had time, she said, to see anything of the Christchurch girls, but they would pass muster if they reached the Wellington standard. "This is the first time I have been in a country where I have only to open my mouth to let people know where I come from,” Miss Sylvester said. New Zealanders forgot that Canadians had borrowed a lot from the United States language, the same as Mexico and even Alaska.

The tea drinking habit of New Zea landers was a matter of continual wonder to her, she added. It started at six o’clock tn the morning and it was of little use becoming annoyed at that hour, for the practice was found to obtain also at the very next hotel visited, and the annoyance had to be registered all over again. Six meals a day, with odd cups of tea added at intervals, was too much even for a tourist. The afternoon tea she appreciated, but one could get too much of a good thing. The capacity of train travellers to dispose of cups of tea along the route was another source of amazement. Generally speaking New Zealanders seemed a happy, hospitable people, and it was a pleasure to travel in the country. The efficiency of the Tourist Department was a matter which had impressed her deeply.