TREASURES AND BURGLARS

Evening Star, Issue 18254, 19 April 1923, Page 3

TREASURES AND BURGLARS

A string of tlie much-coveted pearls is not always a happy possession, fi would seem (writes “Celia” in Melbourne ‘Table Talk’). At least one Melbourne girl has not found it so. A necklet for which her parents and sonic fond relatives have been collecting pearls for years was completed for her twenty-first . birthday, and was estimated to be worth a nice round sum of three figures. Yet it is quite, a modest string, and most unpretentious to the average observer. The expert knows they are well matched. She has never had an easy moment since she began to wear them, and her nights 'have 1 begun to be haunted by nightmares. £h

looks askance at every unknown caller or tradesman, since her cousin had her pearls stolon evidently by a- plausible carrier who delivered a parcel and was left at the. open door whde the maul went to secure money for his payment. She loves her beautiful pearls, and the feel of them round her throat was described as “ enchanting.” However, she has decided to forego this pleasure, and has sent, them to the bank's strong room until crime shall he less rife in Melbourne. Now she is worrying as to whether they will lose lustre locked away in the dark and never worn.

This reminds me. of another case of timorous quaking. A prospective bride has a wonderful trousseau of tho daintiest of undies, quite a stock like olden times, when a dozen of everything was tho rule. Fo ninny places in the neighborhood have been burgled, and clothing of all kinds taken after selection with wonderful discrimination as to value, that she is in constant dread of losing her stock. Being practical, she has packed them all in a suit case—crepe do chine and such delicate fabrics pack into very small compass — 11 and everywhere that Mary goes that suit case is sure to go.” It accomn,nnies her to picture, shows and other places of amusement as well as to all kinds of day journeys. .She is certainly not going to lose that trousseau for want of a lit tic care ami inconvenience.

HEALTH LICENSES FOR MARRIAGE. “ I cannot see. that anything hut good could come from the practice of requiring a health certificate before marriage.” This statement was made by Hr Lyttelton (England), formerly head master of Eton, *t a meeting arranged by the Eugenics Society, in connection with the annual conference of educational associations, at University College, Gower street. There could be no quosfion whatever (said Hr Lyttelton) that proper teaching in regard to flic sacredness of marriage should lie given fairly early. Broad principles should lie laid down in regard to the subject of which boys of eighteen could perfectly well understand. The condition of public opinion in regard to marriage at present was enongn to cause profound anxiety', and whde the Church and the State were wrangling on divorce, both were neglecting their plain duty in training young people to understand what marriage was before they got married.