MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 20 September 1923, Page 8

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

iSEWb AND KUTES. Left strapped in a perambulator m an orchard, near Asliturd, Kent, Lily Moore, aged one year, somenow succeeded in moving tne vehicle, althougn tiie wheel was lucked, lhe vehicle was discovered lying on its side in the nidi stream at tne bottom of the orchard, 'lhe baby was drowned. Parisians at the seaside wear pretty Casino frocks. The “robe de style is ideal if you. do not want to wear an elaborate evening dress. It is of black taffetas with organdi hem and collar in a fresh green tint. This colour is used for the bow, and the finishing touch are the pink roses with their green leaves. The evenings by the sea are almost always chilly, but here is a delightful coat which it will be a real joy to wear. The brick-red silk embroideries are on a soft beige ground, and the fur is imitation Kolinsky. Ibis coat emanates from the Maison Rouge. The cheaper imitation furs are holding their own. Rabbit is quite as popular as ever, and can be introduced in a dozen different ways. It is whispered that a woman, dressed in widow’s weeds, was travelling in a railway compartment with an elderly spinster. “I’ve just been to my husband’s cremation'' said the widow. “Oh, you poor thing!” cried the spinster. “I’m so sorry for you.'’ “He was my fourth husband,” confided tile widow: “I’ve cremated them all. At this the old maid burst into tears. “Have I said anything to upset you?’’ asked the widow anxiously. “Oh, no,” answered the old maid, still sobbing ; “but I was thinking how unjust the world is. I’ve never had one husband, and you have had husbands to burn!” In reference to the presentation of a rose to the King during his Border tour, recently, a correspondent writes: — Everyone has heard of a peppercorn rent, but roses were equally popular at one period as an annual offering in lieu of rent. There is a cottage in West Sussex whose owner formerly had to present a chaplet of roses to the lady of the manor each midsummer, as rent. His neighbour’s rent consisted of two roots of ginger and a penny. In Spofforth, Yorkshire, land was let in 1240 for a render of two chaplets, one for the lord and one for the lady, of primroses at Easter, of roses at midsummer, and of sunflowers at .Michel.1 ..I’ .M...

’ mas, and one pair of furred gloves at Christmas. There is something very picturesque in this offering of chaplets. History does not record whether the tenants remained to witness (he placing of the chaplets upon the brow of the noble lord and that of his lady. Nor does it relate which one got the pair of furred gloves. The film artists of the United States are flocking to “facial sculptors” for the purpose of having their countenances changed to suit their parts (states the New York correspondent of the “Daily Mail”). Recently at Chicago, in the presence of a number of newspaper writers, Mr Ben Bard, a well-known screen actor, had his nose “taken up” by a surgeon. The operation lasted 45 minutes, after which Mr Bard returned to the studio with the straight nose required by his new part. The doctor has arranged to perform a similar operation on Miss Fanny Bryce, one of America’s most popular actresses, who says she has exploited her present nose and mouth for all they are worth, and wants new ones for the comedy parts that -she intends playing. Turning to the reverse of a newspaper cutting of March, 1911 (writes a correspondent of the “Manchestei Guardian”),l came across the following delightful commentary on one feminine fashion which has met with no set-baCK in the intervening years:—“The bare throat fad has steadily gained ground despite the protests of the hoast of women who vowed that they would never 1 give up high collars, and who were convinced that they could never look 1

*/ well with their throats exposed. After all, there is a great deal in being used to a thing, and people have gradually become used to seeing the uncovered throat and finding beauty in it even when it is not all a throat should be. Moreover, the uncovering has in itself led to much improvement of those throats and lias driven women to bleaching and massaging and exercising, until now many a throat that was unsightly when the high neck first invaded fashion's realm has become really a thing of beauty.” From a casual survey during the hot spell of 1923 it would appear that the bleacher and the masseuse have the flowing tide still with them. Writing from Western Australia, a mother of children is most impressed with the report of the Plunket Society, which gives the fine results of the campaign all over New Zealand, and the wondeful lessening of the deaths of young children from gastro-enteritis and diarrhoea. She is full of envy, in a. sense, and expresses a longing for a ‘‘Dr LTuby King” to arise in their midst, or at least for a disciple of his to lie placerl in Perth and start propaganda which will inspire the authorities with the desire to have a pure milk system and teaching generally among mothers which will bring them somewhere to the new standard of health among the little mites. It appears that a baby clinic has been established in Perth, but a good backing of money and authority is needed to ensure the right results. •wßammaMTOinfflM Bmam /ssrarasaßEaaiaiß