MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 June 1923, Page 8

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

— ixltVYb AND l\u-l.hh. Nearly 20,u1i0 women have replied to two questions put to tnem oy a i’rencii woman s paper, which asked tnem: (1) Ji you were, not Frenchwoman, what nationality would you choose • (f) If a friend aimed you horn what profession to choose a husband, wnat would you reply f 'Io the firstnearly 14,01)0 women plumped lor America. Among the. “also runs' were the Japanese, wno obtained 93 votes, and the Turns, with 18, contributed, no doubt, by. readers of Pierre Loti. In answer to the second question, 9000 women think business men make the best husbands, and 1300 favour him artists. Only 300 voted for airmen, and 51 for singers. Writing on the subject of cocking in France, a Wellington visitor says; — “Strangely enough the Trench, who are so frugal in all their habits, don’t eat blackberries, so we always eat plenty during our walks, but after one attempt gave, up bringing them to the hotel to be cooked—tiie French idea of stewed fruit seeming to be; to make it into a thick jam, and very sweet. How I long for some real home-made puddings! A very ordinary sweet in France is jam, which one eats with a spoon with small

biscuits to go with it —not even butter—so dull! Sometimes we. get pears stewed in such thick syrup that 1 hope never to see them again. The only milk pudding we have seen since we left England Jias been rice boiled in milk, and served cold with jam, or else chocolate blancmange, both being hailed with delight.” Just as severely plain hats and frocks are most becoming to the brunette type, so too simplicity in coiffures is to be preferred. The great danger to the brunette is that of appearing overdressed. There is no surer way to create this impression than by frizzing out the hair or overelaborating the coiffure. For 'general use (says an' American writer), “I find that a dressing formed by drawing the hair softly across the forehead and ears, ending in a soft roll at the back of the head, is both the easiest to do and the best appearing, frequently I am called iipun to dress my hair in more elaborate styles, but I try to keep the effect of simplicity by omitting curls and puffs. Many of the early masters of art paintings had their madonnas as brunettes, and they invariably showed this type with the hair drawn smoothly, almost tightly, about the ligad. They knew that this was the most becoming way for- the girl of pronounced brunette colouring to wear her hair. Modern girls can take a pagfe from, books of the masters on this point. A brunette screen beauty whom we all know carries the extreme simplicity of her coiffure to the length, of drawing it tightly over the head and binding it there with a simple bandeau of some brilliant coloured silk, rolling it softly below the bandeau. It is the most effective coiffure that could have been designed for her type of beauty.”

An Englishwoman with a most ingenious mind has invented a simple and practical machine for washing dishes. This is in the shape of a bin or tub which can easily be carried about ; cups, plates, saucers, piedishes, jugs, basins, and glasses are all washed together, without the slightest fear of breakage. The articles to be washed are placed in a wire basket, which lias special compartments for silver and china. Hot water is then poured on to the lid of the washer, whence it percolates to the dishes. But it is the action of a propeller, worked with a jerky movement. that dashes the water against the dishes, and cleans them. Dirty water is run. off and replaced, by fresh, after which the lid is removed and the propeller comes into action as a fan so drying the dishes by hoi: air. It is all very simple, very clever and very quick. One big advantage of the automatic dish-washer is that hands need never touch the water, and the whole operation of washing and drying fakes about live or six minutes. This dish washer is not a very expensive affair. It costs only a few pounds, and can also be used for washing clothes if desired. The important group who decide, in advance what are to be the, fashionable colours seem to have come across an optimistic weather prophet, declares a writer in the “Manchester 'Guardian.” Last spring inquiries for the. season's shades, in gabardines and suitings produced mostly the browns and drabs connected with mackintoshes and much rain. But this spring all is to be gay. The drabs and browns are there, but they have taken on a more, cheerful hue, and suggest the, nqwly-ripened beechnut or the curious hot brown of tb.e monkey-nut. The almond-nut is also mentioned in. this spring’s collections, but in this case it is the green of the unripe casing that is. to be possibly the most popular colour of the season. Another shade which is being launched is also from the greengrocery counter, a pale green suggestive of a ripened Suffield apple. Tomatoes too are represented, but, this now shade of tomato is so disguised by the intermixing of coral and flame that it is impossible to decide what the colour really is. Another new green which will be welcomed by the devotees of Irish green who found in jade but a feeble substitute, is that curiously strong bluq-greeii that some painters always use to express grass. One of the newest colour combinations is possibly the, introduction of turquoise-blue and sealing-wax red on the same trimming.