MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 October 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 bo fully authenticated). A Japanese wooer presents his sweet heart with a beautiful sash by way of an engagement token. The new fur coat, says the Continental “Daily Mail” of a recent date, will be very short, with wide sleeves, wide skirts, and curving lines revealing the dress. IL calls for trimmings, and the new dress will show frills and fringes and ruched ribbons everywhere.

A wedding of the dead has been per formed at Peking ■ before the bereaved Chinese parents of the bride and bridegroom. A rice merchant, Hu Chang, whose son died recently, agreed to the ceremony being performed with the dead daughter of his neighbour, as the couple had been engaged since childhood. After the wedidng they were buried in the same grave near the city’s northern gate.

“The announcement that there are 25 women among the IC7 candidates who have just received the diploma of the Royal College of Surgeons is another sign of the advance of the woman doctor, says the “Birmingham Post.” “That advance is very much taken for granted, now the war having drawn the woman surgeon into public knowledge, though she could not have come forward if she had not been ready.”

In Detroit street traffic is to be prohibited in fifty' city blocks to provide play Space for children. Traffic is to be banned on certain streets between 2 and 5 p.m.

daily, and it is believed this action will minimise accidents and injury to chffimn. A Fiench fashion writer records m ] J Int.ransigeant that icveiitly she took a census on tile sidewalk outside the Cafe de la I’ajx oi long skirts and short skirts. Long skirts, she declares, have won by imiies. All the new frocks aie down to the ankles, and it is now the exception to see stockings displayed nearly to the knee. With the passing of the short skill, Parisian girls have become women again, and already the fashion of the last two years which was hailed as the beginning of a new era, is labelled ridiculous. What one reads of the Anti Bachelor Bill introduced into the Turkish Nationalist Parliament at Angora, which makes marriage compulsory lor men over 25, makes one rather think the lives of bachelor men in that curious country are not the happiest in the world. Poor things! Fancy being allowed only 25 years before being compelled to take unto themselves wives, willy-nilly. if they don't, well, we read: "Defaulters will be lined 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. Gilts of land, loans, and State education for children are held as rewards for marriage, with a penalty of hard labour for a confirmed bachelor.’’ One has always been accustomed to think of women of this land as having rather unenviable existences (says an Australian writer), but one begins to wonder if, under the above conditions, man’s estate is much more free than the women’s.

A certain well-known society beauty, who, when she tired of wearing black ciepe de chine nightdresses, introduced the innovation of black silk sheets, is now intriguing her iriends by ordering jazz, sheets of a similar material (writes the London correspondent of the Dunedin

"Star”). Of course, they are specially made for her, and equally, of course, they are designed to set off her hair and com plexion. Whether the idea, will catch on remains to be seen. If so, we may even have our rooms adorned with jazz wallpapers. And why not? Did not Mrs Asquith introduce pre-Raphaelite or sonic other form of decoration into her bed chamber at 10 Downing Street? and did not Mrs Lloyd George have the wall stripped as soon as she went into residence, substituting therefor a pattern beloved of Criccieth, in which forget-me-nots vied with rambler roses in clambering up that dear familiar trellis work/