MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 24 March 1922, Page 8

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

— 1 --- NEWS AND NOTES. (The Lady Editor will be plea-ed to receive for publication i.i this column items of social or personal news. Such items should be fully authenticated J A new in the matter of veils is always of interest, ami there is much to fascinate in the one. worn by Miss Kyrle J’ellew, the actress. Iler neat little toque, wTiTcii turns up in trout, is of black satin embroidered with red. The veil takes the form of pendants on each side of the black net and Vermillion crepe ; they can lie arranged in an infinite variety of ways. She wears a. coat of red pilot cloth trimmed with kolinsky and stitched with silk. When she discards it, a dress of the same wonderful red crepe marocain is in evidence; it is provided with long sleeves and effectively trimmed with fringe, the long sleeves being drawn in at the wrist. A ■very practical section of women in a southern city, in feting a, prospective bride, arranged pleasant little tea, parties arid evenings for her, with an object in each. On one occcasion pantry goods were asked for, and each guest brought a jar of jam, chutney, jelly, pickles, or something of the sort, so that the newlymarried wife need not start at once with making such things, but have leisure' io enjoy the ornamental side of life a little, longer. Another evening brought forth “favourite recipes,” and an excellent little book of practical directions of all kinds of cookery was the result. Having served the same mistress for 30 years, a, domestic servant named Caroline Heintz, sixty-nine years of age, refused to survive her. Mlle Laura Boissade, her employer, died a, little over a month ago, leaving a, comfortable annuity to her faithful seiwant, together with all the furniture of her house in Paris. But, though well provided for, Caroline would not be comforted. She was found dead, hanging from one of the windows of the little house to which she had removed when her misstress died.

The opinions of Maggie Moore and Bert Bailey on the “frock shock” that the ‘Babes in the Wood’ panto, caused in Melbourne are enlightening and amusing. Miss Moore, when asked for her opinion of the modern methods, held up her hands in mock horror. “I’m neutral! I refuse to be drawn into a discussion on clothes, stage or otherwise; but isn’t it rather late in the day to object to legs?” Thus Bert Bailey: “I saw forty-five pantomimes in England and a great many revues, and as far as daring is concerned Australia is a kitten with its eyes unopened. In ‘The Blue Lagoon,’ a London success, the boy and girl wore nothing but trunks and a scrap of seaweed. Nobody commented on it, because that’s what they might be expected to wear, marooned on an island for years. Personally, I would be more shocked to see Tarzan of the Apes in a dress suit than a shred of leopard skin. If the kiddies see bare legs in pantomime

they are only surely replicas of themselves, and that seems appropriate enough. But, hush! don’t- let us discourage the wowser. He is the finest Press agent in the business.” Few women know how to dress themselves for the links. That a woman's golf may be perfect, but spoilt by her wearing, for example, a canary-coloured jumper ami striped skirt of rainbow hues. Men complain that these, startling get-ups “put (hem off their play.” A sleep last is a greater test of endurance than a hunger strike. 'I he average person can abstain for seventy hours without injury, but has then usually recalled the limit of exhaustion, and falls asleep whether he will or no. But there arc, of course, exceptional cases, even eases of men staying awake and playing the piano continuously for a bundled hours or more, though what earthly good this does to themselves or anybody else it is difficult to see. Christine Nilsson de Vallejo, Dowager Countess de Casa Miranda, the famous vocalist, who died in Sweden on November 21, left property of the value of £119,927 17s 5d in England. She gave £5OOO to the Musickaliska Academien, Stockholm, and £2COO to the Conservatoire of Music in Paris for scholarships, to be. called the Nilsson scholarships, for the benefit of students there. A large number of works of art she left to museums in Sweden, and her Era rd grand piano she bequeathed to Hie Music Conservatoire, Madrid, to be given to the best pupil in piano-playing as a souvenir of Christine Nilsson. A cage, of lions standing unlighted on a. main traffic route, would hold terrors for the stoutest heart, and there is littl wonder that a young lady received a shock and that her horse gave a start on coining unexpectedly upon a collection of these kings of the jungle on a recent dark night on the Te Rapa Road, states the “Waikato Times.” The owner of this menagerie, who failed to appear in answer to a charge of leaving a vehicle unlighted in the I’oad, was fined in Court next dav.

The Ladies’ Army and Navy Club, in Burlington (Gardens, Bond Street, London, is more like a man’s club than the Forum. Here the members are practically all the wives and daughters of service men, and they have none of tho desire for information which is to bo found in many women’s clubs. It has 3000 members, not a few of whom come to the club only when their husbands are leave from India, Egypt and other far-away parts of tlie°Empire. The women politicians foregather at the Franchise Club, which was founded in the stormy times of 1909, when only a strongminded woman dared to announce herself a suffragist. Nowadays the Franchise Club is quite conservative. Its subscription is only two guineas, and as the rooms in Grafton Street aie very comfortable and flw food is exceptionally good, it is popular with busy- women who have not much time to spare for club life.