MAINLY FOR WOMEN ITEMS OF INTEREST

Greymouth Evening Star, 17 September 1928, Page 4

MAINLY FOR WOMEN ITEMS OF INTEREST

(Notes by

Marjorie)

TRIPLETS BEtOME WIVES. RARE EVENT IN BELGIUM. Boom, a little town near Antwerp, celebrated in worthy manner a few weeks ago an event the like of which is extremely rare. Triplet sisters Josephine, Philomene and Maria. Baeymans —who had just reached their majority, were married, and no princess wedding was ever surrounded with more ceremony and gaiety. The triplets are daughters of work-ing-ciass people, and have nine brothers and sisters living. Six others have died. On a recent morning they walked over roads on which silved sand had been sprinkled to the Town Hall. Through the gaily decorated streets they were accompanied by their grooms and members of the four families —the husbands are. not related. A picturesque procession of children followed the wedding party through rows of cheering spectators. The civil marriage ceremony over, the Mayoi of Boom, in a happy little speech, pre sented the town’s congratulations ant marriage gifts. Then appeared more triplets, the unmarried daughters oj a docker of Eeckeren, who had come to offer flowers to the wedded trio. Mme. Magnus, Van Linden, am Troch whom Josephine, Philomene and Maria had now become, then let their husbands aw'ay to the decoratec and overcrowded church, where the nuptial blessing was given in the course of a solemn Mass. At 2 o’clock, there was a wedding breakfast, during which the couples were the recipients of all sorts of pre sents. Afterward the public joinee in the rejoicing, and, special permis sion having been granted by the auth orities, there was music and dancing for the rest of the day and all ths night. So much alike are the triplets tha during their courting days each has been mistaken for one of her sisters.

NOTES. Society women are now spending much less on dress, according to West End shops. Instead, they indulge in antiques, motor cars, beauty treatment, furniture and decorations, and entertaining to a greater extent than formerly. “Old-fashioned colours, such as brown, red, etc., are not mentioned nowadays. The usual terms are beige, cyclamen, etc.,” said Mr J. H. Luxfora, S.M., at the Magistrate’s Court at Whangarei. “Skirts,” explained Mr Ralph Foni, the president of the Fashion Art League Convention at Chicago, “will soon be longer. Many evening dresses will touch the floor at the back, and they are also far more ample. The skimpy one-piece frock which accentuated the boyish form, and which the flapper boasted never took more than three yards, is gone. In its place there are fuller, longer-models, requiring twice as much material. In one evening gown shown at the display of the convention there were 50 yards of tulle, lace and satin.” Once again women have proved that they can triumph over men. The results of the Sydney Bulletin novel competition, show that the two first prizes of £5OO each were won by women. The third prize of £75 was won by a man. The Benson silver medal of the Royal Society of Literature, given by the late A. C. Benson, the novelist, has been awarded to Miss Helen Waddell for her book on “The WanderingScholars of the Middle Ages.” Costing £5OO and embroidered with more than 20,000 pearls and other tones, the dress worn by the model of Queen Mary in the new Madame Taussaud’s in London has been made of specially wover bocade. A prominent woman artist has been engaged by an American motor car factory solely to design colour schemes for car bodies.

DRESS PARADE. THEATRE TO BOUDOIR. One of the novel “turns” at a recent dress parade was a procession of mannequins wearing embroidered shawls —not as theatre wraps, but as complements to boudoir toilettes. Over an Oriental smoking suit, for instance, was draped a marvellous blue-and-gold silk Chinese shawl, decorated with ships in gold and lame. Another sylphlike creature promenaded the stage in an exquisite white lingerie creation, over which was thrown a large shawl in finest cashmere in vivid reds and greens that looked peifectly wonderful against the dead white. The orthodox dressing gown, in one of its latest guises, has a wide silk border all round, of the same colour and material as the contrasting lining. HINTS FOR HOME NURSE. The following facts may be useful to the home nurse who has a dyspeptic patient to look after. Two lightly boiled eggs are digested i in one hour and three-quarters, but raw eggs take half an hour longer. In . spite of’ this fact, raw eggs are often ; preferred for invalids since they are ; less irritating than boiled ones. It is this non-irritating' character which ; causes the digestive juices to flow : more slowly. Two poached eggs take two and ■ a-half hours to digest, and two hard- - boiled eggs 'three hours. Hard-boiled - eggs, however, if finely chopped, are ; as easily digested as if soft-boiled. > A glass of boiled milk will take from two and a-half to three and a-half hours to digest; fresh milk half an I hour less, and buttermilk the least 'time of all.

SILVER LININGS. Dear days there are when all our world ,is smiling; when our glad hearts go out to those we love; when not a moment is o’ercast with sorrow; and not a shadow dims the blue above. And there are days when there is no escaping the nameless sadness that enshrouds our souls; when not one little sunray lights the greyness; and in our hearts a hopeless requiem tolls. Glad days and sad days, take them all together! Count up the joys that still outweigh the griefs! Count up the rainbows and the silver linings—that still rebuke otir rebel unbeliefs! ' • —H.S.

FROM A PARISIENNE’S NOTEBOOK

(By Yvonne Rodier). A notable feature of current dress displays is the elegant array of capes in soft moire and taffetas, with contrasting coloured linings. These are cut full enough to wear over bouffant draperies; and red, yellow, and pink are highly favoured shades. But amid the competition of the reds, yellows, and pinks, a model in saphire-blue with a design in silver daisies stands out as a superlatively attractive model and proves that the Parisienne’s recent craze for blues of every hue is not completely on the wane. This blue creation is lined with alternate strips of blue velvet and silver lame. A gay scarf is eternally helpful in imparting the* requisite bright note to the useful tweed suit of which the Parisienne is so enamoured. Her country-house wardrobe invariably includes two or three such ensembles, and at Le Touquet the tri-colour striped silk scarf is the correct mode. Striped and checked designs are considered more “sporting,”—and, above all, more “English”—than the ultralarge white spots on a dark ground that characterise the newer but apparently not universally successful scarf accessories.

Sandals are very much the vogue again, and are seen in numerous new editions, plaited in two colours. When worn with the right sort of sports clothes on the right occasion, the many-coloured sandal is by no means without attractiveness as a gay contribution to the sartorial scene.

Flannel, incidentally, is the chief rival of soft tweed amohg toilettes “pour lo sport.” 'Some of the very smartest and most alluring ensembles arc materialised in dark or light blue flannel, with plenty of grey shades, as usual. Natural coloured flannel also is considered very chic, i have, seen a pleated skirt, of this material looking delightful with a clever bordering of pale green braid, and a, matching jumper- with whitc-and-grecn cambric frills. The milliners continue to use straw and felt together with excellent effect. Straw hats have felt brims and narrow strips of felt as trimming. A felt

hat has a brim of varnished straw, and a narrow band of the straw round the base of the crown, gathered into a bunch, like flowers, to trim one side. Brims are increasingly uneven. Many dip low over one ear only. Black bangkok hats have their own unriv ailed prestige, since they can he worn with almost any type-of dress, and footwear in smart black can keep them appropriate company. Meanwhile despite the unabating efforts of the modiste., it. would 'seem that only a. wedding, or similar smart function, can persuade the Parisienne to desert the chapeau of small and comfortable dimensions for the wide- , brimmed type.