MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 9 May 1925, Page 8

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

- '■— NEWS AND NOTES. Shoulder posies of artificial Howers are still popular, and we find a matching posy trimming the hem of ( the frock or the short train. ] Large white crystal tube beads made an unusual trimming on the collar ; and cuffs of a tailored frock of navy repp. The handkerchief sleeve is once again revived in the new season’s modes. Some period evening frocks ing shown, but they are more striking i than pretty. A beautiful model was made of bright yellow taffetas; the long corsage was plain, but the bouffant skirt was trimmed 1 with a tremendous true-lover’s knot of gauged black velvet. In fourteen American States it is lawful for a girl to marry at an age when the law forbids her to become a wage earner on account of her youth. A child of eleven was married recently, and there are said to be 667,000 women living in the States now who were married l before they were sixteen years of age. Muslin and tulle are two of the most popular materials for young girls’ dance frocks. Muslin frocks of the softest pastel shades, palest greens, pinks and mauves, are simply made with long bodices and handkerchief draperies, while black embroidered with vivid flowers holds first

place for tulle. Braid as a trimming is enjoying a tremendous vogue. Day frocks are trimmed with rows and rows matching the cblou r of the frock, while evening gowns are ornamented with braid beautifully embroidered, and combining every imaginable colour. A quaint conceit is a little braid turban made to match. “So your wife had parties?’’ Interrogated a lawyer of a witness in the Magistrate’s Court at Wanganui recently. “Were you not present to help your spouse extend the hospitality of your home?” .‘No, I wasn’t.” “Why,” further queried counsel. ‘Because I wasn’t asked/ was the response, amidst laughter. Princess Mary is notliing if not domesticated. She has helped her mother-in-law, Lady Harewood, in an egg collection for various hospitals m Yorkshire, the eggs to be supplied from her own home farm at Gffidsborough. The Princess has lately been giving a good deal of attention to a Dutch breed of fowls, and is showing herself interested in many matters relating to her farm. To the older generation it may seem almost beyond belief that face powdering has found its way into the primary schools. Napoleon said that every soldier carried a field marshal’s baton in his knapsack. The bright scholar of to-day appears to think it ought to read that every pupil carries a powder puff in her-bag. The tact, however, is that girls of tender years have had to be reprimanded at school for the quantity of powder showing on their faces.

The Queen has created a very charming fashion; that of wearing a pin in front of the hat to match her earrings, , says an English exchange. Her Majesty was visiting an exhibition of pictures one afternoon recently and looked very well in black with a black hat, while the pin in question was of rubies and diamonds to match her ear-rings. In these days of everything to match, it is a mode that is sure to catch on. and so many people are wearing earrings again. Scarborough (England) has a very live Central Committee of Women’s Training, and now that so many girls are out of employment the committee has instituted domestic classes m cooking, washing, dress-making, needlework, upholstery and physical culture at the municipal schools. An exhibition is held of work done, where mistresses can interview girls anxious to get work. Many good appointments have thus been made, to the mutual satisfaction of the chief parties. And yet another woman shows herself not to be the. bundle of nerves generally credited to the female sex. Mrs Court-Treatt, wife of Major C'ourtTreatt, is appointed doctor and nurse to a motor expedition from the Cape to Cairo to survey a motor route and to do scientific work for the Natural History Museum, and the School of Tropical Medicine. The expedition is in charge of the major, and includes three other men and a black boy.. Woman all over the world l is successfully taking her place in what has hitherto been considered man’s domain The Board of Trade in England has

said that thpre is nothing to prevent a woman becoming fully qualified as a sea captain. Leningrad, once known to us as St. Petersburg, has gone further. The master of fhe Soviet barque Tovarichtch deserted, and Miss Diatchen Ronan, who acted as third mate and held her master’s certificate, was asked by the British Foreign Office to take the ship back to its home port. This is doubtless the first time that a womkn has actually been in charge of a vessel.

The latest toilettes have a touch if gold—in the collar perhaps or in the scarf of gold tissue which accompanies the coat. The new gold or silver tissue' scarves are exceedingly smart. They make a pleasing contrast when worft with black coat-frock. Mrs Sherwood, known to New Zealand as Maud Kimbell, is now a noted artist, who has settled in Australia. This lady, who is at present holding an exhibition of water colours in Wellington, has had a very successful career. She first studied under Mabel Hill, then came a bronze medal from South Kensington, London, and recently Mrs Sherwood was elected the only woman on the committee of the Water Colour Institute, formed last year in Sydney. 'Several of her pictures have been purchased for the National Art Gallery in Sydney, and she lias also exhibited in various London salons.