MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 March 1926, Page 8

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

NEWS AND NOTES. Girls at a college in Spartanburg, South Carolina, have gone one better' that all, the others who have aped male fashions, i Until recently they wore belts, but now they wear braces. Not ordinary braces. Rainbow-colour-ed braces. As nothing is a novelty for long, tlie poor girls are wondering already—What next ?

Mdlle. Suzanne Lenglen, says a Nice message, denying a rumour that she is engaged to the Duke of Westminster, says: “I’m going up in the world. First it was a count, then a duke. I suppose it will be the King °f Sweden soon. I prefer singles, and wish the matchmakers would leave me alone.”

Now that blackberries are in season some housekeepers may be glad bf the following i-ecipe fo r .blackberry jelly :— Put the blackberries into a preserving pan and bare cover with cold water. Bring to the boil and simmer slowly for an hour, bruising the blackberries occasionally with a wooden spoon to extract the juice. Strain though a jelly cloth and allow the juice to drip all night. Measure, and allow §lb of sugar to each pint of juice. Boil the juice alone for quarter of an hour, then add the sugar and continue the boiling until the jelly will set. Pot in the usual way.

Reptile ties are the latest development m men’s fashions. “A daring and original novelty in neckwear has been introduced to the trade in a wonderful series of printed effects simulating the dazzling colours of reptile skins. The beautiful markings of pythons, boas, •copperheads, lizards and chamelons are reproduced with living fidelity even the characteristic reptilian scaling of the skin being closely imitated.” Of a different order is another range of black-and-white printed ties. The feature of these is the true dead white of the printed figures, an effect which it has proved practically impossible to achieve in the past.

“Smile,’’ said the magistrate at Tottenham to a •disconsolate-looking young wife, who sought a separation order against her husband. “I haven’t much to smile about,” answered the wife, who said her husband had been cruel to her. Nevertheless, she smiled, and the Court smiled with her. The husband smilingly said he would find a home for his wife away from her people, with whom they had been living. The wife agreed to accept this offer and the magistrate made her smile again by recalling that what appeared to be mountains at the beginning of his own married life had proved but molehills. By the time they left the court the young touple were laughing.

English dyers and manufacturers are again first in the field in creating colours for next season’s fashions. Paris is already clamouring for cloud, the new English grey, and it is expected that the pastel shades and half-tones, upon which the English firms are concentrating for the spring, will be used all over the world Fashionable' colours will be foxglove, a faded mauve, biskra and dawn, two pinks of great delicacy, chartreuse, a yellowish green, and Rose Marie, a low-toned red. Oakapple and Sahara are pretty fawns, which are gonxg to displace brown next season, ana palm green takes the place of. bottle green. The only blue is almost copied form the uniform of the Royal Air Force, and is to be known as “airforce.”

The International Woman Suffrage Alliance, to be held in Paris this year, will have as one interesting delegate Miss Ada Bromham, of Perth, W.A., who was nearly elected to the .State Parliament on the last occasion. She will take part in the special debates the enfranchisement of women in countries not yet advanced, equal moral standards, the nationality of married women, and the study of the system of family allowances which is now so much to the fore in many lands. The last ideal should provide Miss Bromham with plenty of material, as the Queensland scheme for providing foy children is coming into force in July. She will be able to point out that one Australian State is enforcing this scheme by which an endowment is paid for all children after the first child up to the age of fourteen, provided tlie total income of the breadwinner does not exceed £4OO.

A yachting romance culminated at St. George’s, Hanover Square, recently when two notable yachting enthusiasts were married. They were Constance Lady Baird, widow of Admiral Sir John Baird, and Lord Charles Kennedy, second son of the Marquis of Ailsa. Lady Baird is England’s premier yachtswoman and owns the racing yacht Thistle, with which she won 49 prizes last .season. She was the first woman to qualify for international races, and was one of the British-America Cup team last -year. While in the United States Lady Baird nearly sold the Thistle to an American, but in the end she gave him back his money and kept her boat. Her engagement to Lord Charles Kennedy was announced a year ago. Lord Charles Kennedy, who is a bachelor of 49 years of age, i s a scientific faim-

Mrs Emily Newell Blair, viee<hairwoman of the Democratic National Committee of America, writes in “Harper’s Magazine” : “Women have passed no laws. They have made no changes in party procedure, in campaign management or tactics. They have affected to a slight degree the choice of candidates for important offices. They have not influenced party platforms or performances. Few have been elected to political offices. Few are placed in appointive offices of power. I know of no woman to-day who has any influence or • political power because she is a woman. I know of no woman who has a following of women. 1 know of no politician who is afraid of the woman vote on any question under the sun. Have women in business made any difference in the ways of offices, their atmosphere and their manners? Have women buyers and women clerks made any change in stores? Have they made any change in the professions, in-industry, in the arts? So much and no more can they be expected to make in politics.