MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 May 1925, Page 8

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

NEWS AND NOTES. For the middle-aged woman, grey in all sorts of becoming tones will be fashionable as will be mauve or blue for the debutante. , Hats decorated with imitations of insects, more or less lifelike, are being shown in the Paris shops. So far they have not proved very popular. ; Health courses for the benefit' of passengers are the latest innovations on Atlantic liners. By special exercises and dieting it is hoped to make the time of the voyage into a time of recuperation. Suede bags of generous dimensions are embroidered intricately in wool of flamboyant colpurings. The fashionable circular vanity case is now giving place to an octagonal shape, and the one tassel trimming motif is quite demode sijj.ce the many-tasselled scheme has been exploited.

A novel sports suit is a plaid skirt and a jumper-tunic top made from (two 'shawls. _ The idea, of course, is that the shawls should be of different colours to match the two tones of the plaid. Another successful sports costume is the finely-pleated skirt of crepe de chine with very fine woollen jersey jumper and felt- hat in the same shade as the jumper. A tragedy of the housing shortage was revealed at an inquest held 111 London recently, on Minnie Price, a domestic servant, who was found dead with hdr head in a gas oven at her uncle’s house at Rugby. It was stated that she was engaged to be married, and was much upset because a house could, not be obtained. Having accumulated furniture, she refused to occupy -rooms. A verdict of suicide while temporarily ‘insane was returned. 1 » It is noticeable that at .the more exclusive milliners place is found for hats with pronounced brims, says an English fashion writer. They are usually turning downwards, especially on the sides, and their crowns have got away from the all-prevailing dome shape. For trimming, there are piany novelties in high upstanding clusters of flowers, rather stiffly arranged upon a rigid foundation. But there are also novelties in feathers, and drooping clusters of ostrich feathers in tiny stripings of black and white are to be seen on many good models. . ! . Miss Helene Grimshaw, aged 20, of Surrey, England, is the first woman student to be admitted to the Institution of Civil Engineers since its formation over 100 years ago. Her father a civil ' engineer, and has been a member of the institution for 25 x years. Miss Grimshaw shdwed a keen interest in engineering as a child, aqd took the subject seriously at the-age of 16. As a student, she will have unique opportunities for study and advancement, and in course of time will be able to qualify*for full membership. i A The cult of “eating to music” is gaining more adherents every day in London and America. In the cafes and hotel grill-rooms specialty entertainments, lasting from 30 to 45 minutes, are given during meals, and so popular have these proved that patrons go back again and again to see the same turns while they eat. For instance, at the Trocadero, in

London, an abbreviated version of the ballet Copeilia ran for three months. The quick-step, which is a speeded-up variety of the old fox-trot, is the most popular of all the dances, and in the ball rooms the waltz occurs only about four times on the programme. The river or seaside holiday, which used to be dull for a'” woman when the man went fishing can now bp — and is—shared by both as a new comradeship Which justifies the holiday for both of them, states a writer in the '‘Morning Post.” The lady angler is a world-wide factor in the life of angling; and is not only to be admired but, as in other walks of life, reckoned seriously with. In comparison with the male angler her sense of .touch is more delicate and her patience, when really interested, inexhaustible. Moreover, strange as, it may seem, she does not mind her costume, or to appear, if need l be, in the sou’-wester and oilskins of the more hardy sex. There are those who may imagine that the woman angler’s one great fault is want of application. That is not so, as* proved by he r success in all the spheres she has entered. Mr Arthur Walley, of the British Museum Prints and Drawing Department staff, has translated the first volume of an ancient. 500,000-words Japanese novel, said to be one of the great novels of the world, and the earliest long novel in any language, states an exchange. He began last March, and hopes to finish a volume a year for the next five years, when it will be complete. , Much of the work has necessitated research, as it is written in old Japanese, as unintelligible to the modem Japanese person .as old English is to the average Briton. The novel was written by ! a woman named Murasaski in A.D. 1004, and has been read by few Europeans, although it is a common book in Japan. It has 800 characters, who have passed into legend. The story tells of the love affairs of Genjl, a son of the Emperor.