SCHOOLGIRL "HOWLERS."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19889, 7 March 1928, Page 7

SCHOOLGIRL "HOWLERS."

Boys are not the only ones who make "howlers" at school. At a lecture given by Miss Spear, joint principal of a secondary school for girls, Bath (Eng.), the following howlers by girls were vouched for

Joan o' Arc's father was a pheasant. Aaron was a good man who helped Moses with his conjuring tricks. At the battle oi' Crecy the soldiers found a Ford motor-van, by which they crossed the river and were saved. The sun never sets on the British Empire, because the British Empire is in the east and the sun sets in the west.

God tried Abraham by giving him a wife and children.

Severe styles are to be confined to walking shoes. Rubber shoes have undoubtedly toir/a to stay lor sports and wet weather, and wonderful is the medley of colours in which they are produced. The rubber gaiters which come up to the knee and have a lightning fastener down the front are selling very well. They are produced in rainbow colourings, and are delightful for children, while also proving popular with grown-ups. Rubber boots to match the coloured macintoshes are being sold in mahogany and every other fashionable colour. They are made on riding-boot' lasts and have a blanket lining. The new Charleston shoes are fitted with rubber soles.

Since tennis is becoming quite an im-. portant winter sport, interest also centres in the "Lenglen" shoes, which are in rubber, in rainbow colourings. They were introduced to tennis players by Suzanne Lenglen at" the Holland Park tonrnamer.t. where she made her first appearance in England as a professional. These shoes are practical because owing to the mixture of colours they go with any frock. Since coloured rubber shoes came in some girls have had to buy numerous pairs to match their different frocks, <

Evening shoes are so elaborate as to be exquisite pieces of patchwork. For example, there is nothing outre about this pair of shoes for a ballroom: gold kid toes, red and black kid sides and backs; an imitation mother-of-pearl heel studded with imitation jewels. Opalescent kid shoes in which pink and green shades predominate are as fashionable as gold and silver kid, and jewelled heels are to be even more the vogue than they were last year.