MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 April 1925, Page 8

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

NEWS AND NOTES.

• .-if ' , ■ Men are taking up domestic work in Britain more than ever. They generally live'in, and receive! an aver- ' age of £5O a year, with all found. Damages to the amount of £325 were recently awarded by'a Belfast jury to Miss Dorothy. McDowell, formerly of Myrtlefield Park, Beiiast, against Ferguson :of Bombard Street, for the negligent.use of a curling machine, by which her was set on fire. : V. We are very quick to liame ’a new mode after some passing craze, says a London writer A few seasons ago we went through an orgy of “Tutankhamen” fashions. , More recently we-' have had a “Mah Jong” vogue. , Princess Mary’s wedding gave us “Princess Mary”' blue. These were merely phases of fashion. More permanent- perhaps was the “Suzanne” headdress introduced by Mlle. Lenglen, but even this is now prosaically known as the headache band; Mr and Mrs John D. Rockefeller, junior, recently announced the engagement of their only daughter,'

Ab by, to IJavid Merriweather, the son. of Mrs David, Milton/ The Rockefeller and Milton families have adjoining estates in Westchester county, New York, and on the coast of Maine. . Miss Rockefeller and Mr Milton' have been friends since childhood, and when Mr Milton 'was recently called, to the Bar, his -first case was' the defence of Miss Rockefeller, when she was prosecuted tor exceeding' the Speed-limit in her mo-tor-car. < Those who disapprove of bobbed or shingled heads are now,. < amusing themselves watching the latest fashion war —hair v. hat. No woman, jgpce hats were invented, would continue to wear the same style month in , and month out. It isn’t femininely human to expect it. ' Yet the bobbet

or /shingled .head has made this de mand. Thd modern head can sup port nothing more substantial than e miniature bee-hive. Design after design was evolved by the milliners, but the fashionable coiffure would noi give way. But now 1 , we read, women will soon return to large hats. 11 the new broad-brimmed shapes refuse to stay on shingled heads then women’s “crowning glory” will return to favour. I, k .. The rumour that there is to be a revival of the patchwork fasmon take’s one’s mind back, to tjie vogue for “crazy patchwork” uit the end ol last century, when oddments of material of different shapes, sizes and colours were zealously collected, ultimately to be converted into-a quilt or cushion. The fashion even exerted some influence at one time in the Xir/ivln z-»-r Juor’c 4- ->4-.-.

~ UlUOiJj UUI IO VI Veld vU'UfIJ is in connection with household draperies. and appears to be due to the fact that the “Jacobean period ’4 style of furnishing, requires bright* colours to neutralise the, somewhat sombre effect. Cushion covers! are a favourite subject for this kind of work, and some shops are displaying patchwork covers made of diverse pieces of suede. In other instances scraps of cloth are cut out in the shape of figures and are sewn on to a. canvas background. scenes are popular, as the figures are particularly easy to design. > As a protest, perhaps, against the tendencies of ultra-modernism, beauty • specialists have revived the wearing qf the patch. So far, it is a modest arid very discreet patch that has made its appearance, as good form allows only the wearing of either a circle-shaped patch or- a star-shaped one. Eccentricshaped patches, such as crescents, . „J„ ..„j it. _ ir-i_i

Howers, diamonds, and the like are quite taboo for the moment, although it is possible that when women have recovered from surprise av this oldfashioned revival and adopted the patch as an every-day adornment and every kind of shape will be worn. Some are wearing this quaint, aid. to beauty at the corner of the ffiSlith. Some at the corner of the eye. Some even in the middle of the forehead, - right between the eyebrows, and.some again ,on the point of the chin, or just where it will hide a blemish. But "beware of the patch on a sallow complexion.—l.R. in the Daily Chronicle. — - - a 2. Many sarcastic people would say that the compilation of a ‘dictionary is very appropriate work for a woman. However that may be, it is true that soine years ago the Danish Board of Education gave the work of producing a new dictionary of the Danish language to Dr. Lis Jacobsen and her

} assistant Herr Buul Jensen. She has , all the business of organisation, pubi licity and correspondence, both as re- • "gaids the work in libraries, and in • the outside world where the editors ’ are working at the dictionary in their own homes. Six of the required > twenty volumes have been completed > and Danish women are, now beginning • to look forward 'to its publication. Their husbands, however, are not so i anxious. For one thing, they, say, , giving a dictionary to a woman is , simply taking coals to Newcastle and then—who knows Dr. Jacobsen’s definition of men? g The new dancing season wluch is now commencing is not likely tp see the introduction of any vital changes, either in* steps or style, at least until many month's have passed. Modem' dancing, of course, undergoes any transformation only when any new dancing "steps” have had time to, arrive from London or Paris. Simplicity is the most obvious characteristic of to-day’s fox-trot and one-step. But the few simple steps that are used

must be well practised, and danced m perfect time and balance. The slow walking steps with turns made at exactly the-same tempo and occasionalij a quick step out of line make perfect balance a necessity. "Jazz,” oi course, -is slowly dying out, while "jazz” music is now giving place tc a quieter, slower, and more melodious style; In addition to the fox trot, and one-step, no dance programme is now complete without several waltzes. This is a much slower dance than the old fashioned waltz and is varied with very deliberately executed pivots. "Sets” are also returning. Lancers, Alberts, and Fitzroys are not nearly so uncommon as they were a few years ago. These, never completely relinquished in country districts, are now being occasionally danced in fashionable circles, although the entire number of figures are seldom gone thiftugh. It need hardly be added that dancing is becoming an almost universal recreation from' the ball at which a band of twenty instruments plays to the f *hop.” where an ancient piano is the entire orchestra."