ENGLISH GIRL

Greymouth Evening Star, 14 November 1936, Page 7

ENGLISH GIRL

BARGAINS IN U.S. STORES. NEW YORK, September 23. While department stores of the United States are full of bargains for the serious young shopper from England, “truly American trinkets” for her more frivolous nature are scarce. Furthermore, newspaper reporters along the Atlantic seaboard ask “silly” questions. Such were the observations of 24 English girls who left here for home in the Queen Mary to-day, after a month In this country on a tour arranged by the International Friendship League of Boston, the group in charge of the Misses Edna and Margaret MacDonough, of the league. And was made up of daughters of London Rotarians. Failing to find the proverbial statuettes of “Lady Liberty” and the Empire State building “interesting,” the young ladies turned to heavier pursuits than souvenir-hunting on their last day here. One of them changed places with an elevator operator in the Woolworth tower and gave her friends a “lift” to the sixtieth story. Another looked in vain for an opportunity up to the last minute to drive a tram.

Dancing and “bun-fights,” known more conservatively as tea parties, brightened their stay here, reaching a climax in a midnight supper in the Rainbow room at Rockefeller Centre.

Shopping for clothes was a daily delight in the cities they visited, including Boston, Washington, Philadelphia, Buffalo, and New York. Sixteen dresses were not too many for one of them to buy, since “better values in style and quality” were found here, she explained, than at home. But when it came to smaller items designed to amuse the reminiscent eye when glancing back over “that month in the United States”—these, paradoxically, had to come from foreign goods imported here. And the reporters? What do they think an English schoolgirl thinks about? Boys. Apparently nothing else!