HERE AND THERE

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 95, 23 April 1935, Page 15

HERE AND THERE

Concerning Clothes. "When I was a boy we took our clothes seriously," says Sir Walter Gilbey, England's seventy-five-year-old "fashion Baronet." He adds, regretfully, that it is only women who now treat the clothes problem as it deserves. No Training For This. "A man must serve his time to every trade save censure," wrote Byron more than a century ago. He was castigating the critics—his own critics, and others—for taking on a job they knew nothing about. A writer in an Australian daily mentions another calling for which there is no skilled preparation. "Parenthood is the one function for which we receive no training," says the scribe. Not a new discovery, of course; but worth insisting on when so much is being said and written about unemployed. youth— about its wantonness, its wilfulness, and all the rest. The Prince of Wales has put himself at the head of a Jubilee movement to give the youth of Great Britain a chance. ,One main caUjse of the trouble is the irresponsibility and unpreparedness of parents who, in a big percentage of cases, don't even attempt to qualify for what is actually the most important job in the world. \ Billiards for Women. Cricket and tennis may be all very well for women, though they don't lend themselves to decorative effects. Much as we admired the prowess of Miss Archdale's English cricket girls, we couldn't see anything to go into raptures over in the huge batting pads and wicket-keeping guards that made the girls, with their wide-brimmed hats, look, like mushrooms over a white fence, states the Australian "Women's Weekly." But billiards —ah, that is another story. Graceful, swinging skirts, something neat round the waist, and a supple form bent over the cue, are just "the thing" for billiards. In England the game is rapidly gaining ground as a pastime for women; in fact, it is being said there that billiards isn't really a man's game. As an alternative to bridge, we could do with more women's billiards. Kitchen Tea. An enjoyable evening ,was spent in the Masonic Hall r Berhampore, on Saturday, the occasion being a kitchen evening given by. Mr. and Mrs. S. Jansen for Miss Pearl Perrett and Mr. Garland Wilson, in honour of their approaching marriage. About a hundred guests gathered to wish the young couple every success, and they received many gifts. During the evening vocal,items were contributed by Miss McGuir%/ and Messrs. W. W. Marshall and A. Elston. Dancing and supper brought a most successful evening to a close. Hutt Valley R.S.A. Dance. The tastes of those,who enjoy both old-time and modern dancing were well catered for at a function held in the R.S.A, club rooms at Lower Hutt recently, when the Hutt Valley Returned soldiers entertained their supporters at one of aperies of fortnightly ; dances. Arrangements for the evening were under the direction of Mr. H. Pattinson, social secretary, and Mr. F. Stanton officiated as M.C. The thanks of members were given to Mesdames Free, Stanton, Taylor, Hay ton, Bennett,, and Butcher, who acted as hostesses. ■ As Anzac Day falls on the social evening this week, trie next dance o£ the series will be held on, Friday, April 26. ' Quakers' Work. .. ■ ■■■■' • The political conditions in Germany and Austria, the troubles with which the Jews are faced, ancl the work that the Quakers are doing, were subjects, dealt with in an address by Mrs. W. N. Benson at the conference'of the Society of Friends at the Young Men's Christian Association rooms, on Saturday. Mrs. Benson made special reference to the work of reconciliation between the opposing political factions in the S»aar, states the "Christchurch Press." "The workers," she said, "were not afraid to stand alone as uninfluenced, by party differences, wherever suffering is to be relieved, no matter what its origin". The emigration of the Jews from' Germany and the work of domiciling them in other countries, France, Palestine,

and even, possibly, Brazil, were subjects also treated by Mrs. Benson, who referred to the political difficulties now standing in the way oL settlement in Palestine. A Delightful Party. Mrs. A. T. Emerson, assisted by her daughter, Miss Elsie "Emerson, was hostess at her home in Hataitai recently at a very enjoyable party in honour of her niece, Miss Agnes Emerson. Bowls of chrysanthemums decorated the drawing-room and the dining-room, where dancing took place, was gay with streamers. The hostess was attired in Lido blue georgette, and tVie guest of honour-wore a charming frock of nil green taffetas. Among those present were Mrs. J. M. Emerson (midnight blue lace), Misses Sheila Fitzgerald, Ruth Crombie, Iris Highet, Mary Ferris. Peggy McDonald, and Edna, Billie, and Joan Emerson; Messrs. A. T. Emerson. J. Emerson, R. Trevor, J. Hilkie, L. Smith, P. Kane, J. Powell, and V. Reynolds. Lord Nuflield's "Jest." Lord Nuffield, Britain's motor magnate, is a man who goes about with his eyes open, states an exchange. "You'have a better-looking lot of ladies than any other country," he, told a, gathering of manufacturers in Melbourne the/other day. No one in Australia would think of contradicting him. But—what will they say in England^ / . • The newspaper report says the j compliment was paid "in the form of a jest." But was it? When Lord Nuffield gets back to his own country, or when he is met by manufacturers' representatives in New York or Paris, it.w.ill be no use saying he didn't mean it. "One does not jest with love," says a.French proverb. Or With women's looks either.