WOMEN’S DECEPTION

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 233, 14 September 1934, Page 13

WOMEN’S DECEPTION

Attended Smoke Concert ETON CROP AND GLASSES With her Eton crop brushed neatly back aud a pair of tortoiseshell glasses to help her disguise, a young lady attended the annual reunion in Auckland of members of a well-known secondary school recently. The reunion took the form of a smoke concert, aud the lady was correctly attired iu a well-fitting lounge suit.

The masquerade was successfully cilr ried through, aud even to-day there are some of the Old Boys who are still ignorant of the fact that for three hours their ranks contained a member of tho opposite sex. “I remember a rather cissy looking chap who sat opposite me,” said ouo Auckland man. “His hair was black and well greased, and he wore glasses, but, I did not pay particular attention to him. Ho smoked cigarettes and 1 don’t know that he offered any objection when the steward tilled up his glass.”

Tho uninvited guest, it is understood, was a Wellington girl who recently married a professional man practising north of Auckland. Her husband, an old boy of the school, was also present, and apparently was a little worried by his conscience as the evening progressed, for he whispered his secret to a friend. Apparently the husband and the friend decided that no harm would be done in allowing the masquerade to continue, for the young lady was still in her seat when the last speech of the evening was made. Incidentally the usual wide range of smoke concert “stories” were told, although it is not on record that the lady contributed to that side of tho entertainment.