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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11247, 27 June 1922, Page 5

Certainly dressmakers are tlie cause of the greatest number of matrimonial quarrels. It is almost to he wished that we could copy. our first parents, or, failing that, that the sumptuary laws of tho Middle Ages might again be enforced (says Lady Francis Bali'our in "Sunday Illustrated”). They wer? a grievance in their day, for tliey supplied the class distinction. Fur might he worn by those above a certain degree, and it was then that "furbelow” cnm© into use. The peasant, the bourgeois, the knight's lady, and the countess all had their garments prescribed for them, and submitted to the dictum that others should not aspire to be clothed like the ventry. People were content then to have one holiday kirtle and on©- magnificent robe which thev were not ashamed to be seen in again and again. A few of these ancient garments—which, motli and rust have not corrupted—remain to us, sweetly smelling of lavender and of the peace of less struggling ages. Same people have sighed for a uniform, ,some form of dress from which one could tell at a glance the rank and worth, the piety* or the delicacy of its wearer. But the uniform clothing of man has tended to h*s ugliness without lessening ihis vanity. Miss Ivy Hawk, a Surbiton (London) girl of nineteen, informed ‘'Sunday Illustrated” that she intended to attempt to swim the Channel in /August or September. - She is a member of the Surrey Ladies’ Swimming Club, and when fifteen won the club's long distance swim in tho Thames—Surbiton to Kew Bridge. For three years she won the Kingston to Putney swim, and Inst vear she attempted to beat the ladies* world distance swimming record, doing ?5 miles. Her stroke is slow, but she has wonderful endurance for a «?irl of her years. Dustin’s were successful in winning tho Championship of New Zealand for best Decorated Wedding Cake at the N.Z. Bakers* Exhibition. ‘ Order- yours from Dustin’s, Ltd., Wanganui; Palmerston North, Wellington.—Advt. Mothers! protect your little ones from colds and coughs. Give them "NAZOL” on sugar. ‘Sprinkle baby’s pillow. Safe and pleasant.