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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3562, 29 June 1912, Page 4

The consternation among the men folk at Home because of the tailors" strike is very amusing, says a lady correspondent. To hear all the males grieving one would imagine that they had only one suit left between them. We superior women always knew that man was a vain animal, but we - never thought that he could rise "to "the heights of despair in the way he did during the few days that those who fashion his exceedingly ugly clothes have been on strike for better terms of labor.' A-tailors 1 strike apparently affects every male in the community; a dressmakers’ would only inconvenience the wealthy woman who would not deign to confection her own wrapper —all the others would merely smile and buy our paper patterns.

Miss Mary Garden, the famous American opera singer, is being sued by her Parisian milliner because she refuses to -pay a hat bill amounting to £320. She has, it appears, been in the habit of ordering her hats without troubling to ask the prices, and was surprised when she received a bill containing among other items: —One chinchilla toque, £32; one hat in antique satin, £32: one ermine toque, £24; one toque with changing pearls, £24. The Paris court aujourned its decision'for a week. Husband : “Hurrah ! At last I know where to find my collar-stud.” Wife: “Where is it?” Husband: “Baby’s swallowed it!”