MERRY WIDOWS

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XIX, Issue 300, 4 December 1929, Page 9

MERRY WIDOWS

VARIETIES” CN MALOLO. Officially there are 79 widows aboard the Malolo, now at Auckland, but tho passengers themselves say laughingly. 57—“ Like Heinz’s, all varieties.” One of the widows is Mrs. Onez.ina de Boucbel, from Louisiana. Tall and slim with a lovely complexion. Mrs. de Bouchel’s name has come ahead of her, as she successfully sued Asa Candler the American soft drink kinrr. for breach of promise. She is a keen club woman, interested in theosophy and history, and also writes on those subjects. Among the wives interest centred in Mrs. Leslie Moon, who is honeymooning. And of the young girls there is Oneita Jantzen. who says emohatically that she did not go bare logged to an official ball in Melbourne. Mrs. ,T. Maxwell Peyser, of San Francisco, says hare legs are a decided saving on tho hosiery bill, so her husband naturally approves the fashion. “Coming through tho tropics,” she said, “nobody wore socks, and even tho old ladies exhibited a bare leg to the world.” An attractive young vjoman, with a boyish head of brawn hair and Spanish colouring is Miss Gwendolyn Strong, the youngest citrus-grower on the Western Coast of America. She has 150 acres of oranges, lemons and walnuts at Sanata Paula, California. On her fifth voyage round the world is Mrs. Virginia Huichmson, of Los Angeles, club woman and travel-lecturer. Taking an interest in educational systems of all the cities she visits, is Miss Jano A. Carney, Ph. D.. head of the Department of English, Jamaica Training School in New York “Plenty of name and not much money,’’ says Mrs. Flora Colfroth Hughes. “Interested in nothing except my home.” In, a trim little black suit, Miss Catherine McGrail, of Mexia (Texas), says: “I'm just ono of tho many old maids, pleasure-seeking round the world.”