MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 November 1923, Page 8

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

— ■ —- NEWS AND MUTES. Lady Tree, commenting in an article in the “Weekly Dispatch” on a man’s failure to secure a wife out of 2500 applicants who answered his advertisement, advises wife-seekers to loiter near a bookstall and wait for a young woman who purchases a book of recitations, a boys’ paper, and a postcard of a famous actor. “The recitations.” Lady Tree points out, “will show that she is unmarried, the boys’ paper that she is a kind, unselfish sister, and the postcard that she is a heart-whole because she is a hero-worshipper. The young mar follows her home and asks to see her father, and the whole thing is done without any delay.” The present tendency to seek thrills and distraction was deplored by Dr McKellar Stewart at the annual meeting of the Adelaide Kindergarten Union. He questioned whether in teaching children how to lit them' selves for work there had not been a failure to teach them how to use their leisure. One of the things which hindered the realisation of the education ideal was the belief of the parents' that the child should be trained to make himself comfortable in a worldly sense. The real aim was to fit him to make contributions to the good of the community.

By an ingenious adaptation of a daylight cinema within the limits of the window, an Oxford street (London) shop is attracting thousands to the pavement. The entertainment is chiefly the screening of mannequin parades. The idea came from a bright shop-walker, who collaborated with' cinema experts. After six months of experiments the difficulties of space were overcome by the adoption of a rear projection and by placing the instrument only 42 inches behind the screen.

A marriage, in which the bride at the age of 74 married her fourth husband, and the bridegroom, who is 68, married his second wife, has been celebrated at St Mary’s Church, Long Sutton, Lincolnshire. The bridegroom was a Mr Rayner and the bride Mrs Denton, both residents in the town.

Much has been written about the gaiety of the modern frock, but the newest hat models almost defy description. Of course, if your taste lies rimt ' Vli y, you can go modestly hatted in black or some ueiuidl snade ; n you like colour, however, you need have no hesitation aoout piling it on. Handpainted hats of soft, pliable straw, I'lbbon-bouhd aiid trimmed with a simple ribbon band, are among the novelties of the season. The painting is not restricted to one colour ; green, purple and orange, yellow anu red melt into one another on the surface of the same model. The result is a little confusing to the. eye, but that has nothing to do with the people who make fashions. As an alternative, there are hats which instead of being painted are made from different coloured straws. They are different from those already described in that they present a speckled or striped appearance, while the first-named suggest an accident in dyeing. It is possible, also, to get a rainbow hat from georgette. The recipe is quite simple; the milliner simply gets as many stripes of different coloured georgettes as possible, and either plaits them together or arranges them in a series of squares, circles, or triangles, just as she pleases, to . form a crown. Again, there is the fruitarian hat, m which, perhaps, an orange-coloured straw shape may provide the background for a wreath of red currants, grapes, miniature apples, and anything else in the form of fruit that the milliner can think of. The wide shady hat will lead the summer mode in millinery. Our present spring hats show the use of ribbon in great bows, used singly or in bunches. Smaller hats are worn well down over the eyes.