TORTOISE AS BRACELET

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6631, 9 June 1928, Page 6 (Supplement)

TORTOISE AS BRACELET

PARIS, May 30. A tiny tortoise, fettered to the wrist, is the latest novelty in women’s bracelet adornments. It costs ton shillings, and requires a nibble of salad once a day. The Auckland Star’s “Man. about Town” expounds re milady’s latest whim, premising that the cable will cause a chuckle:—There is nothing more outre in carrying an animal on the wrist than dragging one on a chain along a pavement, and the local ladies who persist in parading a “Poir” on a leash among the legs of pedestrians are not less admirable than their Parisian sisters who indulge in the display of tortoises. There is no doubt the average woman is just as keen a huntress by deputy as her husband, who loves to have his photo taken surrounded by dead trophies, is of the chase. The savage lady who wears a necklace of human teeth round her neck is own ;-u-ner to the perfectly-civilised one who rejoices in a neck fur with the head of a dead animal glaring over her shoulder. Ruthless hunters comb the earth for skins so that my lady may demonstrate her second-hand passion for slaying, and the forests of the universe ring with the report of guns and the cry of birds pursued so that hats may be decorated and species wiped out. Ladies who wear the pelts of wild animals and/ laugh at the conceit of the Parisian woman with the tortoise might remember that the tortoise is at least alive and that you cannot feed a fur coat with salad.