MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 August 1921, Page 8

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

NEWS AND NOTES. (The Lady Editor will be pleased to receive for publication in this column, items of social or personal news. Such items should be fully authenticated.) 'I he Rev. E. Rosalind Lee, a lady minister, is expected in Wellington shortly. Miss Lee, who is the daughter of an English M.P., is a graduate of Newham College, Cambridge, and post -graduate, of Harvard University, U.S.A. She attended the “Mayflower” tercentenary celebrations at Boston .as a representative of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association. and has since been touring in Canada .and the Western States, visiting tlie Unitarian congregations there. 1‘ roni Wellington Miss Lee wll go io Tiinaru, Christchurch, Dunedin, and

Auckland, and to Australia. At a meeting of the unions of Hungarian wi.men’s associations in Budapest it was resolved to urge upon ihe Government the necessity of taking rigorous measures against the shirt skirts. It was proposed to equip all policemen with sticks with a metric scale, in older to measure the distance of the skirts from the ground, if necessary. In ail eases where this distance is found to be more than 25 centimetres tlie wearer of the skirt: shall be prosecuted for having sinned against the public decency. Men who are found in the society of such women will be boycotted. The meeting was I resided over by Countess Apponyl. An Anti-Bachelor Bill introduceu into the Turkish Nationalist Parliament at Angora makes marriage compulsory for men over 25 years. .Defaulters will be fined a quarter of their earnings, which will be deposited in agricultural banks to help peasants to marry No adult Civil Servant may be a bachelor. Gifts of land, loans and State education for children ate held out as rewards for marriage with a penalty of hard ' labour for a confirmed bachelor. For re-population purposes well-to-do Turks under fifty arc encouraged to keep two wives.

Different-coloured hair according i< the time of day is the latest beantj L device which Paiisiennes have adopt od. This is produced not by wigs, but ’ by what are described as ‘transforma tions. ” These consist of a vapoury I tinted net of hair. The blonde girl 1 may find that for her morning wall: > chestnut locks go better with liei ' morning frock. For a dance a black ( and silver frock goes better perhaps with black hair. The favourite scheme f<r dresses next autumn will be black ' and white. When colours are used. there will be a lavish display of stripes. For instance, stockings are no longer to be black ; for some time past the favourite shade has been grey, but stripes in different colours are to be the really fashionable design. Dressmakers are again making an attempt to lengthen skirts, but both British and American buyers have instructions to refuse to take any models which go too far in this direction.

I’he spread of smoking, remarkabl rapid among men, has been eve: swifter among women. Less than 8 tears ago Dickens, who had travellei all over AV estern Europe and a larg part of the United States, and was .a keen an observer of manners in ai classes of society as any man win ever lived, met an Amercan mot he and daughter who smoked cigars it public and a hookah in private, never was so surprised,” lie wrote “s<> ridiculously taken aback in m; life; for in all my experience o ‘ladies’ of one kind or another, I nevei saw a woman —not a basket woman oi a gipsy—smoke before.” He wouk have to be a very innocent man whr could say that now. Only the othei day the sou of a late Archbishop ol C ititeibnry was telling the world how l.i- mother, Licking a cigarette, consoled herself by pulls at his pipe. Mrs. Benson, indeed, was not habitually a pipe smoker, bitt she. saw no actual conclusive objection to the use of the article. Who knows what another 20 years will do?

An action for the annulment of her marriage, brought by a young Frenchw'onian, Mrs. Emilio Simon AVliite, of New York, has had a melo-draniatic sequel —the tarring, feathering and horse-whipping of her husband by a band of masked men. According I<> accounts given by an hotel proprietor, with whose wife Mrs. AVhite had taken shelter, twelve men in three motorcars stopped at the house of a selfstyled pastor of the Revolutionary Church, tied a rope round his waist and hauled him out of bed to the roadside. After whipping, tarring and feathering him, they took him to a desolate place outside the town of Newburgh, on the Hudson. There, half-stripped, he was' ejected from a car, two of his captors taking him aside and asking: “Will you promise to treat your wife properly?” Air. AVhite gave the promise and was left to walk thirteen miles back to what he calls his “monastic retreat.” He has promised to pay his wife’s passage back to Paris. Young Mrs. White is described as the daughter of M. Marcel Simon, a former chemist of Rheims, now superintendent of the Panhaid Levassor works in Paris. Some .remarkable frocks were shown for Ascot and Goodwood, and the London correspondent of The Post gives details of a “surprising rig-out” as follows: —One' of the most novel black-and-white dresses of the season lias just been 1 seen. One half of the skirt md low-cut bodice is of black satin':. Phere is a veiling of beautiful lace — alack over the ? white half and white ?>ver .the black half. All the way down ke front there is a band of white satin mounted with buttons of black.

One stock is black and one, of course, is white ; there is a white shoe on the former and a black one on the latter—iioiistitiiting a unique “pair.” The waistline is circled with silver tissue, in which is tucked a large water lily. The hat of black lace has a wavy bi im. bound with black velvet, and the trimming is a large white rose, which rests upon the white waxed feathers that droop from the right side of the brim. This reillyi s a wonderful confection, and it is not surprising that its originator is a proud man. But it would not suit everyone, or be appropriate for every occasion. It is a suggestion for Goodwood, but it would be very .suitable for a Casino toilette. It has been labelled the “Success of the Season.”