MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 June 1925, Page 8

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

NEWS AND NOTES.

A San Francisco Court has ruled that it is no crime for a girl to keep her engagement ring, even if the engagement is broken.

Smart walking coats of cloth are often devoid of collars save for a big fat bow of silk ribbon across the back of the neck.

Children’s shoes are every bit as exciting as grown-up’s nowadays, for they are made in all coloured leathers with the smartest strappings. Plaited leather shoes for babies will be shown this summer.

Nothing is counted as being too extraordinary to trim the new patterned frocks. A barbaric material was bound with heavy black cord and finished in front with a small jewelled plaque holding strands of cord weighted with barbaric beads.

As regards women’s affairs, India so much debated at present, shows some advance, the report presented to the British Parliament being as follows : “That .the bar against the election or nomination of women as members of either chamber of the Indian Legislature or of the provincial councils should be removable by the passing of resolutions after due notice in the chambers and the councils. Similarly the bar against the registration of women as electors in certain constituencies under the direct administration of the Central Government should be removable by the passing of a resolution after due notice in the Assembly.

An eminent surgeon has been denouncing the “abominable cooking of the Englishwoman’’ and the general unattractiveness of the middle-class table, says a London writer. Few people will disagree with him. English bourgeois cooking is lamentable. But is not this rather a question of oex ? Women are notoriously uninterested in food. They will eat “just anything.” An egg and some cakes! The finer shade of cuisine leave them uninterested. So can we wonder if they are indifferent to the preparation of food? It is men who appreciate good cooking and men who make the great cooks. Possibly the quickest way of teaching our young women to cook decently would be to teach them to enjoy good food—not “just anything.” Could not those responsible advocate this treatment? If so, maybe, our women folk would go to their kitchens with a greater zest, and mere man W9uld share the benefits,

We are threatened with a new dance. It is to be called the Racket—the tennis and not the wild oats racket. As the name is derived from the fifth and sixth movement wherein the dancers sway from side to side as though putting in a hot service, the perils of the ballroom are likely to be considerably increased, states a writer in “The Queen.” As a matter of fact the professors of ballroom acrobatics who have devised this new course of physical jerks are not likely to make much headway. Although the new dance is to be launched in a score of dance places by the professionals, the dancing public here is getting just a bit weary of innovations, especially when they make a heavy demand upon physical dexterity. A lunatic of my acquaintance is endeavouring to invent a cross-word puzzle dance. The only fortunate thing about it is that long before he can succeed in blending the puzzle craze with the dance mania he will have been put under* proper care. Miss Lucy Wright, a general car distributor in the Grand Trunk Railway of the United States is said to be the only woman occupying such a position, and that it carries with it the necessity for a great executive ability. It is her duty to keep moving thousands of freight cars, and to meet properly the demands of shippers. An idle freight car costs a company a dollar a day, and Miss Wright has 15,000 cars at her disposal, which must always be in use, unless heavy losses are to be incurred Miss Wright was born on a farm in Michigan, and when eleven years of age, her father’s death made it necessary for her to take charge of the

family. . She studied stenography while managing the farm, and at sixteen obtained her first position which brought her in five dollars a week. She worked for a year in the office of a lawyer, going back and forth to the farm, and at seventeen obtained a position in the Grand Trunk. In the years that followed she made ,herself expert as an office employee and proved her unusual qualifications for her present work. Quite a little stir of excitement was caused at the Napier railway station on a recent morning, prior to the departure of the Wellington express train from Napier. A very much perturbed young lady discovered that sho had lost her ticket, which entitled her to a reserved seat. Being a lady possessed of very attractive physical charms, the usual morning bustle at the station was considerably augmented by the frantic endeavours made by various males to locate the lost pasteboard, and for several minutes the platform presented the appearance of a vast room in which a game of “hunt the thimble” was being played. Men of all descriptions and ages peered and pried into all sorts of nooks and crannies, what time the damsel in distress looked serenely on, happy in the knowledge that man had come to the rescue. The cream of the incident occurred when the girl, in taking a powder puff from her bag, came upon the missing ticket, and, uttering an exclamation of relief, quietly boarded the train without saying anything about the matter, supremely indifferent to the frantic search that was still being made by the now perspiring and harassed looking male hunters, who only relinquished the chase when ordered to take their seats.