MODERN PARISIENNES.

Greymouth Evening Star, 28 March 1930, Page 3

MODERN PARISIENNES.

I I CHARMING AND COSTLY WHIMS. The modern Parisiennes, always inclined to the extreme, and perhaps a little eccentric as to fashion, decided to reclothe their walls in silks and satins. These are stretched straight in some cases, and puckered or gathered in others. From a hygienic point of view the silk, wall-covering or panels should be perfectly plain. The colours —or just shades of colours which are now so fashionable — are on the delicate side usually, the extremists only choosing rich dark shades, these more vivid tones merge into pale as they reach the ceiling, which, in such cases, is also covered with silk or satin. There are luxury fiats in Paris where the most wonderful effects are worked out in silks. For instance, a boudoir resembling “Dawn to Dusk,” is carried out with pale primrose silk walls, and the ceiling is covered with old gold satin arranged in rays like the setting sun. Doors, too, are covered with pale primrose silk. In dining rooms of French design one often sees the walls decorated merely by one large panel, framed to tone- with the setting. These panels are often a piece of handsome cretonne, chosen for its unusual design and colouring. i

The material is stretched across an ordinary canvas and. framed. At first one has the impression of a picture, but, on closer inspection, it is found to be a silk or satin material. It is all part of the inferior decoration nowadays, and is not a special picture, worked or painted for the purpose.

GRANDMOTHER V. SNAKE. Bravely defending her infant grandson from a 4ft brown snake, Mrs A. Snowden (73), of New South Wales, Australia, stood in danger of her own life when the reptile turned and struck at her again and again. The children, Terry Dwyer, 5, and his brother Phil, 6, were only three feet away during the whole episode. Mrs Snowden, coming out of the back door of her daughter’s home at Earlwood, a Sydney suburb, saw a snake, poised, ready to strike at the playing Terry, a foot away. Realising the danger, she grasped a broom standing handy, and aimed at the snake. -It was struck, but not fatally and, hissing venomously, it turned at bay. The grandmother faced it calmly, and, drawing the reptile away from the children, swung at it again. Still unhurt, it darted its poisonous fangs at the aged woman, and wriggled closer. Realising that if she did not kill it this time it would probably kill her, she lifted the broom and made a final lunge at its squirming body. It struck true and severed the head.

NOTHING LIKE LEATHER. Time was when women were content with shoes,' gloves, belts and gaiters made of leather. But that.time is past, and curers and dyers of fine skins are having their harvest this winter. Nearly everyone possesses a good all-round leather overcoat, up-to-the-knees leather gaiters are encountered round every corner, and if the craze continues we shall soon see whole costumes made of soft leather in various pretty colours. Already the vogue has been taken up on the golf links, where women trudge about in any kind of weather securely protected by leather skirts, jumpers, jackets, and hats. And they arc not dull, drab garments either! Green, red, yellow, blue, purple—any colour' is available in these very practical garments. You can get jewellery to inatch if you like, the latest idea in sports jewellery being a necklace made of little squares and diamonds of beautifully tinted leather embossed in small, artistic patterns.