MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 25 July 1923, Page 8

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

NEWS AND NOTES.

Of all the thoroughly feminine trifles dear to the heart of woman, none more characteristic of her sex has been evolved than the new “throwover.” This, which was first invented by a lady-in-waiting famed at Court for her particularly neat habits, consists of a square of silken material, embroidered and edged perhaps with ribbon or lace, as fancy may dictate. It is used to cover the garments folded and laid aside on chair or sofa at night. When travelling the “throwover” makes an admirable cover to the portmanteau. Shoe hags, brush bags and rolled up silk manicure case for travelling should match the lb.rowover and be daintily monogrammed.

A young American woman has successfully solved the problem of maintaining herself in. London while taking a course of study at. a university. She makes and sells a certain brand of pies, well known in America, twice a week she solicits orders for these “American Home-made Pies,” wnich she delivers personally to the surprise of her customers, who wonder how she finds time for her studies. So much in request are tjie pics that a tin eecornered contest has developed between the American Embassy, the. Consulate, and the U.S. Shipping Line for a monopoly of them.

The housewives of Deal, in Kent, are campaigning against the cost of tea and sugar, and they are hoping to be as successful in bringing down prices as they were a year ago in the. case of milk, when their eiiergetic protests brought about a substantial reduction. Many members of the Housewives' Union have pledged themselves to reduce their purchases of tea and sugar by at least a half. Others mean to do without them altogether. It is considered that women were, overlooked in the Budget. In America women are also mobilising for a war is “No icing on cake, no chocolates, and a boycott of sugar until, prices come down.”

A leading article in a London exchange, discussing present-day man-

ners, says:—“We only know the foam and froth of the approaching wave of Victorianism.” The writer draws attention to serious talk of crinolines, and remarks on the curious change in youth’s altitude toward parents. H points out that lathers are becoming more pleasant, and a fashionable affection is entertained for Victorian furniture and Tennyson’s poems. “'lhe prosperity of ‘the seventies’ seems enviable,” adds the write, “where once it seemed gross, and the quiet contentment of those who enjoyed it is now regarded as a quality not. to be condemned. Tennyson is already returning to power, wicked parents are a< • quiriug a halo of benevolence, and soon our revolutionary girls of fashion will scrap their Oriental divans and, leaning their heads higainst antique antimacassars, will read ‘lhe Idylls of the. King.' ”

A novel form of furnishing fresh air to jaded Londoners is the caravan tour, first popularised by Lady Urey when Lady Glenconner, says the London correspondent of “Ihe Australasian. Nowadays not a few of these homes on wheels have the comforts of a wellappointed flat. These super-caravans have two rooms, one being the. kitchen and the other a sitting and bedroom. The latter is furnished ■ with two settees with spring cushions, which form beds at night. There, are. also lockers, wardrobes, ami washing facilities. The kitchen has a sink with hot and cold water taps, plate racks for crockery, ami oilier facilities lor a hasty meal, the hot and cold water apparatus being fed from a rotary pump fixed to the exterior of the caravan. The caravan can be detached with little difficulty from the wheels so as to form a bungalow. Il may even be put upon a large barge, and so converted into a houseboat. ll' the party consist of more than two, tents must be added to flto equipment the tent, covering and poles slowed in a rack at the back oi the caravan.