MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 13 June 1927, Page 9

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

NEWS AND NOTES. A new kind of dress ornament has been invented, which is intended to supersede imitation pearls. This is the cuff bracelet, which clasps the wrist, in rows of four or five, over the sleeve and, like it, is a plaited metal chain which serves as a collar. Another new fashion is a satin collar, which rolls back like a shawl, and is a continuation of the coat lining. A contemporary tells us that a mild sensation has been caused by King George appearing at Cardiff with his trousers creased down the side. At the same time we learn that the salon of male fashions in the rue Dumant d'l’Urville is attacking “the impregnable trouser.” We shall be hearing next (hat only women fake any interest in clothes, remarks a writer in “Time and Tide.” A woman in Derbyshire, England, has written to the Premier of New South Wales, Mr J. T. Lang, asking him to select a husband for her. “I am so lonely and miserable (hat 1 am going to appeal to you to help me to find a. real, good, sensible man for a husband,” she states. “His age is to be between IS and 50: he must be fond of home life and its comforts. I am a widow of 40 years of age, thoroughly domesticated, a good cook, fond of home and country life, an abstainer and tall, fair, and refined. My late husband was a. solicitor. Please do this for me and help me ”

Great preparations are being made in Auckland for a “Women’s Week” to be run by the New Zealand Preference League. Window displays of "goods manufactured in the country as well as of raw materials are to be held, and later on in the month the Town Hall is to be utilised as a great Maori store house, at which there will be displays of many kinds, among beautiful mannequins in wonderful costumes made here, and special ballets these being the appearance of six and “divertissements” have been organised to represent the getting and making of a number of commodities. Refreshments are to be served, and the whole show is to be made as attractive as possible.

Sir W. Arbuthnot Lane, the famous surgeon, who writes on health matters in “The Daily Mail,” in openingnew dairies at Walthamstow, said in England, which is a beer-drinking country, we bad little idea of the great part which good milk played in the development of the physique of the race. He stated that diseases, such as gastric and duodenal ulcers, appendicitis, gallstones, and cancer, were practically unknown in the Punjab, where the diet consisted largely of milk, while they were frequently met with among the less robust and more poorly nourished Bengali. Clean, rich, and cheap milk, he added, was required to ensure perfect health.

Upon her retirement after 41 years of teaching. Mrs E. S. B. Tait, assis-tant-mistress at the Fraunce Street L.C.C. Girls’ School, Kennington, London, declared her dissatisfaction at the girl of to-day. “I dislike intensely the type of girl who paints, powders, uses lipstick, and can think only of jazzing,” she said in an interview. But it was not altogether the girl’s fault. “She had been bady brought up by modern parents, who have absolutely spoilt her by allowing her to have her own way too much ” As for bobbing and shingling, Mrs Tait approves this for women up to 30 years of age, but women over 30 with bobbed hail’ “ought to know better.” And when girls get the vote at 21 she is sure they will all vote for the nicest-look-ing man.

“Silk stockings bring the country girl to town, but a good dowry will keep her on the farm,” in the opinion of Ambroise Rendu. This solution, tried by Rendu, dean of the City Councillors, has some chance of being adopted as a national policy Henri Queuille, Minister of Agriculture, approves the plan. The dowries, in the private experiment, are provided by insurance policies, taken out for small farm girls and maturing for a 10,000-franc endowment when the girl is 21, if she remains on the farm. This dowry, supporters of the idea assert, will enable the girl to choose a good husband and remain on a farm. There are 150,000 farm girls born each year and computations show 125,000 could be endowed at an annual cost of 10,000.000 francs.