Eve's Vanity Case

Feilding Star, Volume 9, Issue 3794, 11 August 1932, Page 2

Eve's Vanity Case

TO CORRESPONDENTS The .Lady Editor will be pleased to receive for publication in tbo Women’s ltealiu items of social or personal news. Such items should be duly authenticated and engagements must bear the sis uature s of the parties. SOCIAL, NOTES Miss Betty .Mason of Sand son load, is at present staying iu Palmers*oil. • * * * • Miss Bee Dormer of “Waipiko.” Cheltenham, leaves on Friday lor a six weeks holiday in Sydney. .Mi's Stephen Either, of Derb> street, leaves shortly for a visit tire lativos in M eibourne. Mrs B. Worsfold. of OhingaiLh Las returned to her liome alter a visit- to her jauthor All’s «h Tabcok. * * * - • Alivss Jackson <if Wanganui, is the guest of Mr and Mrs Harold Stewart of West street. Miss G. Lynch of Feilding, is spending a. holiday motoring in the Ta raila k i dis t 1 iet. GENEIi AL NOTES Cuming Fashions for July is to hand from tin* Odliuuis Press and is a very interesting number, with its advance fashions. Brighter colours are coining into their own—grape purple, cyclamen blue, and a peony red are considered by exports to- he the predominating shades of the future, while line stripes will he smart for afternoon wear. Tailor' mack's will take cm a more classic and correct outline with easier shoulders and leng narrow rovers. Dresses will h’do under a full length coat and evening frocks just touch the instep. There are 50 new summer designs in • lii-s number and the latest news from fashionable salons.

‘‘The new summer creations will make the average woman’s mouth water,” states a fashion writer. .And her eyes, probably! * m * * *

'The old-fashioned girl was considered good if she helped her mother prepare the d unor, lmf the modern gii-i i< thought, lirnsidcrfate if ;die get home in time for it. Bunch.

One of the amusing minor results of thr Buy British cry at Hom r is t.ho rapid spread of English names

•’.nstead of French ones over the little dressmaking and millinery shops that u ed to call themselves Le Petit Me. gjPin or Maison Fiii. New the firms are Jemima. Joan.ua. April, and Barak Jane.

“Yes, ladies are still smoking,” said a leading tobacr-ouct in Dunedin in response to a query, “hut they have find to economise like the

men, and are not buying as much ns a year or two ago.” He added that an innovation a.< far as Tadic-' were concerned was the making of their own cigarettes. Formerly nearly all of fhem bought “tailor-made” c\gar(Ttcs, but now s-mie were the possessors of cigarette making machines, and were quite export in making their own. M AUK I ALE AND A CAREER {'in a woman, have a career and marry is one of the questions of today. Mrs Pethick-La wrelied, who diet so much for tin* women's cause, says she can. Mrs Pot hick-Euwrence is president of the Women's Freedom League and spoke' recently at the annual conference of the league in England. She traced the progress of the women’s movement since? the league was established 25 years ago. To-day, sin* said. women realised with amazement the immense change that had trken place iu the entire position of women iu the community. Yet to-day it was becoming a practice on the part of the State, of municipal corporations, and private employers deliberately to dismiss a woman from her profession or employment on the day of her marriage. “This practice must be stopped/’ she said. “The arbitrary dismissal of women from employment affects

the working woman quite as much as the professional woman, for if the right of the married woman to earn wages is taken away by law or by custom, she is thrust back into the .same position of compulsory economic dependence that she occupied in the days when any wages that she might earn belonged by Jaw to her liusba ml. Tiie conference unanimously passed a resolution protesting against “the continued sex differentiation** shown by the Bradford Stock Exchange in refusing to admit "a woman equally well qualified by position and experience with many of the sixteen men already admitted to membership.” an I urging the Exchange to bring in rules more in tine with modern praetiee in other profession's. The conference also condemned as unjust the refusal of ordinary covenanted benelit to thousands of mavI ried women mi lor the Anomalies Act ! regulation and demanded the cancellation of this regulation ami the repeal of that section of the Act that delegated power to the Minister of Labour to make orders discriminating against the married 1 woman. TOO BRACING The great advantage of a bracing climate is that it makes one breathe more deeply, increases the desire for exercise, and therefore stimulates the appetitie. This is due to the cool air. It makes one feel full of life and vigour. and. even if one docs overeat, the amount of ext’a exercise taken counteracts any ill effects this may have in the normal way. But; whereas a bracing climate is beneficial for sonic people, it is too strenuous for others. People with heart or kidney troubles should avoid these places, because the extra strain is too much for these damaged organs. WE AT I lEU WOES Waiting for summer sunshine has a depressing effect for dull skies, cold and rain don't make for cheerfulness. The* fact that our tissues nerd the sun’s rays is an added ag gravation. People who allow themselves to get into a hopeless moo I lay them selves open to minor ailments—colds, sore throats and ’tin—because tbeir vitality is lowered. It is a safe principle always to see oneself in perfect, health, to adopt, the attitude that one is always lit. External things like the weather shouldn’t really affect any one with, , s hal| we say. a philosophic mind—tin* type of mind that doesn't allow itself In Ik* influenced by outside trivialities. WHY THIS ‘ PERM IS PE If.MAM.vXr Mr W, T. Asthury, of Leeds University. reveUiied recently the secret °l the “iK'nii** —why a- permanent vavo doc s u >i conic out on wet days. ‘Human hair.’’ he explained, “has like everything else-—a certain crystalline io.ni, which the molecules are arranged like a coiled chain. L. hen file hair is stretched during Liie waving, ilio molecules arm.age lie. in sol vex jn a. totally .different way the chain is stretched out. like a ladder, hug "f i L gets wet then the chain begins |c close up again and the wave disapours." But when steam applied while the hair is stretched, then the ladder-like foniuuion is fixed ami flic wave hedonics permanent unfl it grows out. Wool acts •n exactly the same way, and a permanent wave in the hair has just tlie same effect as pressing a pair of trousers has cm the wool of the material.*' L EATHERS OR RIBBONS EUR WOMEN’S lIATS? Will women wear small hats with feather: i (or feather mounts) or fiats with large trim- trimmed with ribbc:usf j Thousands of pounds depend up_ vii the* answer to this question. Waihoi merchants naturally wish to maintain the smaller hat in favour, which means an enormous demand

for tile r wares, and they are being seconded by hair-dressing experts. I be smaller the- hat, the greater the necessity for hair styles and even wigs to suit the headgear. On the other hand, a larger liat ha s to have ribbo-n (rimming, a.nj of course, requires more felt or straw, There is a fashion light, therefore between feather and ribbon merchants, as principals, with coiffures and feit manufacturers as seconds. Some of tho new hats nr (; very amusing. A jaunty haf with an almost straight brim wiii be a favourite

| and, of course, many variations of I the crocheted hat, sometime© with a | brim turned off the face and turned down at. tile hack over the- neck. But ! more interesting than any i s the ! qua 'ii t little cap trimmed only in aj buw of gross-grain ribbon or a little, posy of flowers, which is now coming into fasl eon. The hat is worn well on • tho back of the head and sho*w s t-lie j greater part of the coiffure—for girls and very youfhlul women only.