MODEST MESSAGES.

Evening Star, Issue 19412, 22 November 1926, Page 5

MODEST MESSAGES.

beauty that is very rare, and better, than all that, she is a delightful girl to speak to.”

It is said that dozens of those who work with the girl—in fact, all her fellow-employees—have sent telegrams of congratulation. She must have spent all this morning in opening the messages she received.

“ We are nearly wild with excitement,” said one of those who work with Miss M’Millan in the mantle department. “ She is a lovely girl, and we are all very, very proud of her.” The speaker turned to some of the oilier girls about her for confirmation of this, and they advanced eagerly and with obvious sincerity to give it. But the Pressman was already satisfied about the love that everyone in the place had for “Miss New Zealand,” so he excused himself and fled.

[Special to the ‘ Stab,’] AUCKLAND, November 22. /‘Miss New Zealand” gave the following message this morning for the people of the dominion;—“l think it a very great honor that the judges should have , picked me out of the girls of the whole dominion. I hope that everyone is satisfied with the choice, and I will do my very best to be a credit to them wherever I go and in whatever I do. I especially want the Dunedin people to know how proud I am to have won this honor for them.” Miss Wilson said: “I am very proud to be associated with Thelma, and I hope everyone is pleased with me too. I will do my best to be worthy of New Zealand always.” A SPONTANEOUS TRIBUTE. ROWING MEN DELIGHTED. When members of the Otago Rowing Club and representatives of other clubs were entertaining the champion four, recently returned from Australia with great honors, at the Somerset Lounge of the Savoy on Saturday night, the chairman announced that the Otago lady had been chosen as “ Miss New Zealand.” An enthusiastic outburst of applause followed, and everyone rose to honor the toast “ Miss M’Millan—Miss New Zealand,” the company joining heartily in the singing of “ Eor she’s a jolly good fellow.” It was unanimously decided to forward immediately a telegram conveying the congratulations of the rowing men of Otago Harbor. a popular Success. Miss Vera Jacobsen, the wellknown Auckland artist who has been painting the portraits of the provincial beauties, sends the ‘ Star ’ the following telegram “ Congratulations to Dunedin on Miss M’Millan’s popular success.” “SWEET SIMPLICITY.” Miss M’Millan was nineteen years of age last April, and was educated at the Albany Street School and the Otago Girls’ High School. The following description of her (written by a newspaper man early in the contest) is very true: — “ Sweet simplicity in a young woman of nineteen is so rare nowadays that the few v. I’O possess that quality are often referred to by the moderns as ‘ old-fashioned.’ “ But it was just this sweet simplicity, this natural, unaffected, unspoiled, and honest bearing that appealed to the Dunedin public and gave Thelma Omand M’Millan a sweeping victory m the beauty contest for the title of ’ Miss Otago.’ Not that alone, of course, for’Miss M’Millan has been richly endowed with physical beauty ns well as beauty of character, and large numbers of those who had seen only her photographs were at once enrolled amongst her supporters in the contest., . . . One cannot help, even after a slight acquaintance, being struck with her sweet personality. She is one of Nature’s gentlewomen.”