Jottings

Northern Advocate, 7 December 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)

Jottings

Fine sewing is a great asset this season. Many of the loveliest dresses are absolutely untrirarried except for rows of fine tucking or masses of cut-out embroidery or faggot-stitching, usually in colours that exactly match the dress material. The stitching is usually worked so as to create a design, and a crepe dress with a cowl neck- : line will have armholes that reach the waist, where the loose sleeves, made up entirely of strands of material joined by faggot stitch, are inserted in the same manner. Sleeves that are slim at the top and very wide at the wrist will have the lower half made of cutout embroidery. These sleeves can hang straight or be caught into a narrow plain cuff at the wrists. Cut-out embroidery will form a deep yoke, or, alternatively, the lower half of the bodice. * * s’; iff Holland and a selfish step-father caused the fall of the first bridal “shower.” The selfish man, who wanted someone to do his house-work without pay, forbade his daughter to marry her suitor, a man of brains if not money. He even withheld the dot to which every Dutch girl is entitled. The bride’s friends intervened. They clubbed together and planned to shower upon her such things as household linen, kitchen appliances and other articles for the future home, and her house was fitted up as her step-father would or could never have done. Like many similar customs, “showers” spread as the years went by, and today not only brides but young mothers and travellers find themselves showered with appropriate gifts.

Are men reverting to the days when it was they and not women who wore the gayest plumage? According to a Southland resident who has just returned to New Zealand from England the most fashionably dressed men now wear a small feather in the band of their soft hats. It may be that the day is not far distant when a dashing feather such as Robin Hood wore will adorn men’s hats. Possibly an ostrich feather would accompany a bowler.

West End waiters and chefs at the most exclusive clubs and restaurants were almost tearful recently. People were asking for such odd dishes, they lamented. They attributed it to the heat wave. “Everybody wants mixed sighed the head waiter at the International Sportsmen’s Club. “They are having oranges and apples and bananas and pears cut up and mixed with heart of' lettuce, and sometimes nuts as well. They have a nice dressing with it—a pink dressing—made with cream thickened with lemon juice and coloured with paprika. It is the most fashionable dish of the day.”

Jealousy is now to be treated as an illness, like measles, says a London message. This week the first clinic in the world for its cure was opened at Vienna under the .direction of Dr. Wilhelm Stekel. nerve specialist and psycho-analyst. Dr. Stekel explains his plans as follows: — “Many crimes are the result of jealousy. Such cases can be prevented when the jealous man or woman consults an expert. There are two sorts, of jealous people—those who are conscious of it and admit it and those who will not confess to themselves that they are jealous. The tatter are the most dangerous, but even they can be cured merely by a talk." Already 14 women have applied for treatment.