MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 August 1927, Page 10

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

AND The less .expensive especially if cut on pu.pip lines, often gets Ippse at the heel. 'To meet (his difficulty is a new type of heel gjrip cpt from corded velvet with a sPptipn wtyjcp goes under the he&l of the foot, cut in one with the usual side and back section. This under ' heel. gives a smooth line right down under the heel," and 'the yefvet surfgep Is cooler and far loss irritating to sensitive skins than the usual ones of suede.

The “Chicago Tribpnp” (Paris edition) announces the niarriage of the American coloured danepr Baker who is at present starring* at the Folies-Bergeres to tjjg’ Itiilfan Count Pepito di Albertini. The wedding took placp on June 3, btf Miss Baker’s tyventy-first birthday, but ’tljc news has duly just been published. The bride, who t.wo yetjjjs ago ‘’ h’aG practically uhkppwn Jjijt who now. besides “charlcstonihg” at tTio FoliPsBergercs runs her own cabaret, will.be America’s first coloured countess.

Some cljtildrgp wgl’g borp wifh infirmities, some had them thrust upon them, and somp fchted them by their own Mr E. Rock Carling, surgeon at Westminster Hospital, at a lecture on “Train harm, he Baid, could 'bp done' in firn minutes by 'Wbrkihfc'tfle' tifed'.muscles of a child thun by'ten pours" of ordinary exercise, Carling, allpdi/jg to the rhyme, Un apnlp g day the from sight

“Eve m.W Myg hdpn bad, but she was an angel compared with sat weakling 4<lam,” declared Lady Astor at Belfast recently. Ing the General of the Presbyterian Churph ifi defend, op tfee temperance question gnQ * s *?s s A e would like to show them that women had been great" jji’ptjgsTe.Ks iii thej.r time. Eve wps the firSjt protester. She was not gping ip say too much about Eve, because men came out very badly in that stgyy. Evp protested against ignorance’. She did ’ not want to live in a sort of fool’s paradise and she pr.otested, b,ecause sl>p wanted knowledge and wisdom.

The backblock settler of New Zealarid’ r 'feels‘is’bliited,' especially when rain makes the unmetalled roads into l°> , alona v^Jmim 1 ’ traffic, but many sbltlers in Central’ ptoWtly "'lahoiij' under Mu® ps. WcW conditions. This fact was by MA$ Gladys Sandford, of Auckhuid, who’ in coipSW’ Mtlq,-■ M motor. On her return to the Dominion by the Niagara, Mrs Sandford detailed her varied experiences, and amongst other things mentioned tfiM' she had met a squatter in the hinterlands pj the Commonwealth, who was, his holding with his -.wife apd two latter .wfire chhrri)i.ng yopng w'opj.ei); mid such had. Keep thq' isolation under tfi'ey Ised that neither usd seep'd shite bpby or a traip. '

1 DgESgES AT COUfIT. >. . ; Drpsses at the fourth apd la§t Court of the seasop were typyy beautiful Debutantes and' tjieir cbpperQps wife, perhaps not do well knpwp as those who attended thy earlier Copr.ts, but they w.er.e just a/ ta|prey.tihg hod as charniingly dressed (dpy| a 1 London correspondent). ' t Tb,e Silver* gowns, trains pf gold lace, amj inagnificeht jeimp 'df the oldqr women ihade a striking foil for the mqri simple frdeks of tlfe young girls,

many of whom had chosqn dai.nty picture frocks of pale-tiilt&d chiffon ’ or ivory lace. Rose colour and were favourite shades, ’but a pip ng the thousand guests received ' the Palace wpre to be found almost every colour under the sun, and sjcaf-cely one frock without its (Jecdration of rich-loqking diamante. Tiny frills edged with net fashioned the skirts of many picture frocks, and therawer.e long draped robes, too, ofc sup rye satin caught on one hip with brilliant oypaipents. Tbe tulle train Was a gqp.d deal seen. If white, it was lined with’ some soft pastel tint, and if of shaded colour thefp wqrp. oftgn drapgriqs ,of lace at either edge. debutantes chose;:fatherto, pt colours to tone with their gowns instead Wfkd bququet? and a good many ; <tliem their veils ahd; fg4TdngsJ With an attractive liead'igresf. Older wqmen hadf pictur.efiqpe Russian cbropals, and head-dresses be_jpngfrig |o' Italian and Spanish png-’ mpijry. family face was usgd to decqr||g a gfep-t many of the "'di‘esseS of the plder women. Diampnds sparkled everywhere, foialthough the olcVta&ionM- fendet-lilte tiarai Ipst cas'fe,' the flat fliamond, hair bandeau lias taken Us place’and is often worn by the yqgug who is presented on her marriage.' Flat diamond bracelets studded with rich precious stones of vivid colour, such as rubies, emeralds, or sapphires were worn a ' ileal, qua W|y young girl had Her‘hecklace or slender rope of glistentag Wls/;• / The Marquesa'Merry del Vai, wile of the Spanish Ambassador, wore a golden gown for this Court. It was embrqiderpd all oyer with diaipante, and her (ram white >yas Patternf of ptayls hnd diamwfe. £l|e ggaip wore the of Marie Louise of Spaip, and hjgr ornaments were a diamond |iara and long diamond carrings. The MitfSWW W l,i^ y / Vlls in silver/ frer gpwp was a directoire robe de stse J pf qmbbssed silver gauze, made over a foundation of Maimaison pink. It tad a diamante iewe| corsage, and a mgnteau de coin .bn suite. ' Madame Pafcavicini, the wife of , the Swiss Minister, wore' a frock b£ White' cM®q georgette, .embroidered in gold anudiamante. Her train was of gold la&e. trAmm&d with priceless old lace. fMrs A. E. Hough ton, the American Ambassador's wife, who again had a. group of American women to present ffMffegal cii'ele, Was in • lovely soft blue, embroidered in diamante. The train WaS of Mite v'elVet lined with silver tissue, and Mrs Houghton carried a beautiful blue feather fan of we same'colour its her dress. ‘ The 'popjitQss pf Mldlctop wore a goljd embroiderad with threads of pale mauve, and a train to match.

The wife of the Peruvian Minister, Mme. de Freyre y Santander, had a hand-woven robe brocaded in delphinium ue aQ d gold, and a train of Chiffon n°bl net embroidered in the same colours.-