MAINLY FOR WOMEN

Greymouth Evening Star, 30 May 1928, Page 10

MAINLY FOR WOMEN

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Marjorie)

GIRL GUIDES’ DANCE.

Bright music, flowers and streamers and pretty frocks transformed the Oddfellows’ Hall last evening, when the first and second companies of the Greymouth Girl Guides held their annual dance. With overhead a netwoik of streamers, Guide emblems displayed around the hall, and the Guides themselves promoting and taking part in all the fun, gay carnival was held and enjoyed by the dancers. Williams Orchestra supplied the music, and a. dainty supper was served. The Provincial Commissioner of the Girl Guides (Mrs M. A. Carr) is leaving the district, and at last evening s dance Miss Marie Parfitt (district captain) expressed the sorrow of .First and Second Companies and the local Association at Mrs Carr’s departure. Mrs Carr had been Provincial. Commissioner of Westland since the inception of the GirT Guides at Greymouth two years ago and had done splendid work in support of the movement. Her readv help would be greatly missed Mrs T. E. Coates (President) then presented Mrs Carr with a stainless fish service. Mrs Carr said she was sorry to go. She wished the Greymouth Girl Guides good luck and prosperity, and assured them of her appreciation of their useful gift. Among those present were: kiesdames Ca'fr, black satin and lace; Learmont, saxe crepe-de-chine; Coates, navy georgette ; Scott, blue tai feta; Bird, pink brocaded georgette; Davis, rose georgette; Moore, pink crepe-de-chine; Parfitt, black beaded georgette; Misses Parfitt, blue tafleta; Coates, blue georgette; Carr, black lace; Hambleton, blue taffeta; Carey, black velvet and georgette; Rains, green georgette; Reynolds, blue georgette ; Dodson, orange taffeta; Doogan, blue georgette; Blair, pink georgette; Mayo, mauve ■ taffeta ; Deere, green taffeta; Bellamy, black lace; Nash, black georgette; Shannon, cerise georgette; Fraser, russet georgette ; Donovan, blue taffeta; McKay, flame’georgette ; Fogarty, lemon georgette; Kilgour, lemon taffeta ; Phelan, helio crepe-de-chine; Anderson, white georgette; Costello, blue tafleta; Orr, mauve marocain ; Greaney, russet velvet; E. Bellamy, blue taffeta; Knell, blue beaded georgette; McDonald, cream lace; Messrs Parfitt, Learmont, Scott, Ross, Bird, Davis, Coates, Shallcrass, Powell, Fogarty, Dodson, Doogan, Kear, Brown, Jones, Hambleton, Bunt, Ames, Gilooly, Riordan, Tennent, Martini, Guy, Morrissey, Gray, McLeod, Bruce, McKechme. rare Disease. How a girl died of a disease which usually affects only cattle was told at a West Ham inquest. The ’disease, actinomycosis (sometimes known as “woody"tongue”), was contracted by an eighteen-year-old shop assistant, Phyllis Tutffe, of Olive Road, Plaistow. A doctor said the girl scratched her finger eighteen months ago, and had since been under medical attention. Operations were performed at two hospitals. The disease might be set up by hay, straw, or grass. Although the germ usually entered by the mouth or nose, it could enter by an open wound, and he could not exclude the possibility that the scratched finger had something to do with the girl’s death. The germ was found in her while she was in the London Hospital. A verdict in accordance with the doctor’s evidence was returned. GOOD NUPTIAL CHANCES. The German Statistical Office analysis of the last census returns discloses that ’there were 424 girls married at the age of 15, of whom one at that age was already a widow. The first miarriages amongst men were at 18 years. Women outnumbered the men in Germany now by 2,100.000, compared with 800,000 before the war. This excess of women is above the age of 25, as up to that age there are 210,000 more men than women, whereas in pre-war- days the surplus was only 42,000. Thus the marriage prospects of young German girls are much brighter than formerly. BRIDEGROOM’S LOSS. A wedding arranged for a Sunday did not take place because the prospective bridegroom lost a wallet near Cardiff railway station. The wallet contained his life’s savings, and he and his fiancee had met to choose and pay for the furniture for their new home. The man did not discover his loss until he was about to settle the bill. He then remembered taking a Treasury note from the wallet at the station. / HAIR CUT IN CINEMA. George Edmund Purdy (17), a fitter’s mate, of Bensted Road, Walthamstow, was charged on remand, at Stratford, with assaulting Violet Aitken, a girl aged fourteen, by cutting her hair. It was stated that, the girl was in the Carlton Cinemti, Walthamdtpw. and the accused was sitting immediately behind her. After the girl had been there for some time she felt someone interfering with her hair, and she heard the sound of “scissoring.” She. then discovered that a quantity of her hair had been cut. and she at once accused Purdy of the offence. but. he denied the allegation. An attendant was called, and lie found some hair on the prisoner’s trousers, and on the floor beside him was Miss Aitken’s hair. Purdy was taken up to the manager’s office, and on the waj r he dropped a. pair of scissors. A fine of 40/- was imposed.

The father of a 20-year-old youth at Pontlottyn, Monmouthshire, told the local magistrate recently that he objected to the marriage of his son to a girl of 19 because he considered marriage was a serious responsibility in these hard times. The son appealed to the magistrate to sanction the wedding, which had the approval of (he girl’s parents. The Magistrate (to the youth’s father): How old wore you when you were married? The father: Twenty-three. The Magistrate: You did not find it a hardship. My father was 21. and my mother IS when they were married, and they brought up a large family. I don’t know that, they found it difficult. The marriage was sanctioned.

GIJNME'i'AL STOCKINGS

American women have found the darker shade more practical, as it does not show every mud or rain splash. Possibly American women are also aware that the gunmetal hose also makes the outline of the leg more conspicuous, it is a fact that the soft pink shades, when contrasted with the light grey pavement, tend to sink into the background. Now the darker shade outlines the leg boldly against the cement walks. Light colours are worn in Paris only with dresses that are light in colour and texture. For street wear the tendency is to choose the subdued shades particularly the thin gunmetal taupe shade or the transparent black that blends quietly with day costumes. When coloured shoes are worn the shade of the stockings should take on the combined colours of the shoe and costume. In the case of black shoes gunmetal should be given preference. Women of New York and Washington do not, as to colours, take their dictates from Paris, although it remains the fashion to wear the French couturier’s latest creation. Even so, while many social leaders of New York and ’Washington still feel it necessary to go to Paris for their new' spring wardrobes, the wife of the President of the United States favours the designs created in her own country. AXE TO CUT CAKE. Woodcraft ritual was used recently at the marriage of two members of the Order of Woodcraft Chivalry—Mr Kenneth Charles Harrod and Miss Ethel Violet Silley—at Fordingbridge, Hants. While, the register was being signed, a group of Woodcrafters, in picturesque uniform, performed the old English country dance, “Haste to the Wedding.” and when the happy pair came out of the church, they walked between the two ranks of dancers. They were then greeted with the woodcraft watchword “Blue Sky,” thrice repeated. Finally they passed under an archway formed by the orange-coloured banner and the Order’s totem, which latter is a. sign uniting Christian and Pagan symbols. At the reception Mrs Harrod cut her wedding-cake with a woodman’s axe. ( . SHATTERED ROMANCE. A love romance, said to have been made possible by the air service between Berlin and Paris, has a Court sequel in a German baron’s claim for £20,000. The girl, who is immensely wealthy, is 20 years old and extremely attractive. According to the “New York Herald” (Paris edition), the action is brought by a, Baron Richard von Zinnow, who claims £20,000 for the alienation of the affections of Louise Oppenheimer, the daughter of a Chicago broker. Von Zinnow says the romance has been shattered by the girl’s parents. He and the girl met in Berlin, and when she went to Paris he used to fly by airways to see her. He travelled in the game ship with Miss Oppenheimer to New York, but when he reached Chicago he had a terrible blow when he learned tfiat the family “did not approve,” and he had the humiliation of returning home without his bride. JEWELLERY NOTES. Necklaces in beaten gold, in floral and leaf patterns, with bracelets to match, were worn by mannequins at a recent dress show by Reville. These ornaments have an effect of ancient Greek' and Roman jewellery, writes a Londoner.

French jet cut in leaf design made attractive earrings for the fair woman.

Necklaces in graduated moonstones and diamonds struck a new note.

Opaque crystal was shown to be fashionable. It was seen in the colours now most favoured—pink, topaz, pale sapphire, aquamarine, etc. —and was chiefly used for pendants. Long chains of rose cut diamonds and diamond crosses of antique Flemish design were well in keeping some of the picture frocks. Motifs and pendants of onyx, 'jnset with precious stones, were alsqr admired. ifl GLORIA CARUSO’S .

Gloria Caruso, the eight-yfeqr=rfld daughter of the famous tenor/'gives every promise of inheriting hex; father’s voice. Her mother stated that Gloria, was being carefully trained by the best instructors, who had paid- a high tribute to her attainments. This statement, whs made by Caruso’s widow after the conclusion of the action in Chancery on her daughter’s behalf for the apportionment of the royalties from the Victor records of her late husband’s songs. Gloria Caruso is to receive £2400 yearly from the proceeds of these, royalties. It was stated in Court, that since 1921 the royalties had amounted to £148,000. AN INTERESTING FAMILY. A family in -which the male tendency is so strong that for four generations not a daughter has been born has been discovered, in San Pedro. California, from records reported to the Eugenics Records Office (states an American exchange). No daughters have been born in the four generations, although there have been thirtyfive sons. The founder of the American branch of this family was born in Germany, the youngest of {the nineteen boys. He, in turn, had twelve sons. Out of these, one married an Englishwoman in Canada. They had one son, who married, and had three sons. Chance as the sole explanation of this continued production of male children only is considered to be highly improbable, and Dr C. B. Davenport. director of the Eugenics Records Office, is making a. study of such onesex families in an effort to determine their cause.

A new glass, said to admit healthgiving ultra-violet sun rays, is being moulded into hats for women.