GENERAL BOOTH ON HATS
" ARMY BONNET EXTOLLED "
General Evangeline Booth, the new head of the Salvation Army, told a large gathering in Belfast, in December, that she much preferred her " army " bonnett to modern " postage stamp " hats.
In a reference to modern fashions, General Booth said: "I would back my uniform against some of the pressent styles of dress, and I would back my bonnet against some of the hats they are wearing in New York and elsewhere. They have now come down to the size of a postage stamp. They are back to front, and you don't know whether the wearer is coming or going. " A woman in New York complained to me about the problem of styles, but I replied, ' You don't know how to dress. You ought to belong to the Salvation Army; there is no changing and matching of patterns; the same uniform does me six or seven years and I aril saved a lot of trouble.' " General Bootli also stated that in Chicago she had a proposal of marriage from a man who said to her: " I think the time is coining when you should seriously consider the question of marriage." " I said, ' I have. That is the reason I am single.' " I come to you," added General Booth, " with the same name as that in which 1 went to America, and I hope to be more worthy to bear the name of my father."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22030, 9 February 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)
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240GENERAL BOOTH ON HATS New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22030, 9 February 1935, Page 3 (Supplement)
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