HERE AND THERE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 74, 29 March 1932, Page 10

HERE AND THERE

Suffragette Library. Paris is to have a "suffragette library which will be unlike any other collection of books in the world (states the "Daily Telegraph"). It is being installed in a spacious room in tlic new town hall of the First Arrondissement, that is, in the students' quarter ot Pans. Most of the books and documents are gifts to thb city by Mme. Marguerite Durand, a well-known feminist. Mme. Durand is not really interested in fine bindings and rare editions. Her object is to bring together in one place copies of all books published in this century which have anything to do with intellectual activity among women. Her library will be an intellectual arsenal for all future students, of feminine questions. Wonderful Service. When, a short while ago,- a nurse in one of the big Paris hospitals was presented with the Cross of the Legion of Honour there were grouped round her over thirty people whose lives she had saved (says a London writer). Madame Georgette Colin has probably saved many more by her skilled nursing, but these she had saved by allowing the transfusion of her blood. She is 52 years old; she has served in hospitals for nearly a quarter of a century; she has given her life-blood 36 times, mostly to patients so poor that they conia only,give her a "Thank you" m exchange. Yet Madame Colin probably thought she had done little to deserve the honour of having this cross pinned on her white blouse. Eccentricities of Fashion. Stockings made like gloves with toes. These are for wear with the popular sandal shoes which are to be worn next summer (writes a Londoner). Feather wigs for semi-evening wear. These fit closely over the head, hiding the hair. The most smart "have a tail of feathers at the back of the same plumage as the rest of the wig. Fine net gloves in black or white with a ruff of tulle at the wrist to wear with sleeveless evening gowns. Black with white and white with black, of course. Close-fitting- cloth skull caps of the same material as the spring coat, with a ring of narrow fur is a contrasting shade put round halo-wise and tilted well forward so that from the front the hat has a shallow plate effect.