PROTECTING CHILDREN

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 102, 26 October 1929, Page 29

PROTECTING CHILDREN

! RED. BERETS IN PARIS

The Basque:headdress, known as the beret, so popular in tennis, golfing, and yachting...circles, has found a new and valuable use, according to a correspondent, ■ >< Safety First," who forwards a clipping from, the "Overseas "Daily M^'' and commends the information -to -.the-woollen "mills with" the idea of placing -berets on the market in Wellingtons and other parts of New Zealand. The paragraph states that on account. of .the rgi-owing dangers of tho road Paris;: mothers arc sending their chidren to-school wearing berets of brilliant vermilion. The red caps are welcomed...by.motorists, who can see their wearers "from a considerable distance. Children playing in the road, continues the writer, are a nightmare I?* ot. 0»*-t-V_nd the red berets have averted hundreds of accidents. Half ttwschool children in towns and villages en the main roads of traffic out of Paris iead g°ear Weafing *"■ becomia 8 little Berets have been worn for quite some time at Home by the kind of motorist wno delights in impressing tho public with a view of himself behind the W h ? el of the "sporty" looking car. lhero is no reason why ho should not; the beret probably has the merit of -Ucking on well in a high wind, and speeding apart,.this would be a recomtten datlon Wellington. Ihe higher the colour the more attention the driver ■would attract. There is no reason therefore, why children should not be equally conspicuous. It is hardly iTkcv Wellington'- motorist i s troubled by "child nightmare,'- as the Preach would appear to bo, but it _ certainly true that in the absence of efficient play areas, the Wei]w £ chid m many locaat j es sti u^fo^ W USS the strcets* High-coloured headgear, however, is possible, without resorting to the beret. But whv stn-i tV-f ! ?% eonld ha^ the child efi •wholly decked out in brilliant red and a^green silk lining would make it p os •all cl° 6^ Ct a HehtnillS change to