BREEZY BITS FROM SYDNEY CITY.

NZ Truth, Issue 98, 4 May 1907, Page 4

BREEZY BITS FROM SYDNEY CITY.

Feminine Fads, Frills, Follies, Feathers, Flowers and Furbelows.

(By "Merrie May.")

A threat of winter, 'flu and snuffles, made "its appearance last week. Cold and piercing was the wind, so femininity dropped its gossamery peek-a-boo blouse . an<i open-work stockings with a sneeze and covered itself with, cloth and velvet and fUrs. There's nothing so unbecoming to woman as watery eyes, a red nose and a churchyard cough. "CamiHe," with her hacking consumptive cough and fainting interludes, would have precious few lovers m these matter-of-fact days. This is the season when women who have taken a course of lessons m dross-making arfd toque* trimming from one of the divers teachers who ban® out their shingles m this 'frills city, likewise the little suburban dressmakers who tmiid frocks at lvaU'-a-savereign each. pla/nt their tootsies on the pavement m front of the shop-windows and refuse to budge one. inch. There they stand six deep for hours, counting ' iip the 1 ■ tucks, talcing stock of the cut,/ the < color and style, the intricacies of the trimming, the quantity 1 and- quality • of the laces of the model costumes • exposed to view. They dissect iba chapeaux. feather by feather, leaf by. leaf, and, to give them their due, some of them go home and build a. similar article at a quarter ths prioe, and only an expert coiikl distinguish the importation from the locally-built. So that the time their feet are riveted to the pavement, and their eyes glued to the shop-/ . window is not exactly wasted. ' .; • ■ • ' • •»'■■■■.,'' "I'll make mv serge like that," Isays one m a stage "whisper. "Nih* gores, very long and • flowing, with bias Vandykes from the hc-m . to the knees, gathered waisfcV jind' Etoncoat bodice." "Wcn'£ suit you at all," says the other tivbbv.. "You'r^ too, short and stumpy and top fat- t v and 1 Eton coats are beastly, unless . ohe has a igood straight: back. That' costume can only be worn. by a tall'; slight, graceful woman, wii.h some figure and style." Ths bystanders smile £T\d, exam iiie the p'&ir critical* iy. Needless to say one is short aivd plump -and^-the other '" a. dragoion-iike* creature squeezed into. twenty-inch .wasp corsets and suffering; -tortures.' She is exactly the peaelierino to fit that nine-guinea; frock, m hrr own opinion.' and. she doesn't .care /who knows it! . / , : •. '• * , '.-' V . . •'• Manager William Anderson, of Wonderland City, Bomli, Closes that favorite resort for some .months, and . the circus, hippodrome, theatre j and menaigierie will tour Brisbane and < Queensland towns. The ni&mmbth show opens undet' canvas at Brisbane an Miiy 4 : . Clarence- McKay, of the Inky Way. has left off spilling ink ' to take up' the circus profession.' or rather to assist with the management thereof. His ' conferee* fed him at Paris House, prior "to his dejsarfc. ure to Bri&bane to arrange for r the ; ■■■ accommodation of Alice (the £840 elephant) , ,and thfi^, tigers-, nvonkoys... and celebrities of tKe gt eat railroad show. .■••■■■ \^ihile on the circus subject, I may . mentio-n that Fifegerald's menagerie? ,was sold by auction on Thursday by H. Oxenham, of turf and ;bookroa,k'ing famer, Since the abti-gamblina; ninilia became so rabid, Humphrey: 'Has. ..left'.' the "'bar one" profession- ami, wields > •the' hammer m his auction tnari:' gracefully and with promptitude,., Wlrth Brothers "bought ten cages consisting of Hons, leopards,, hyelias and monkey s and; a dwarf camel ' ion tieir . show. •;■"■, , : . \ '■, '..'. '■'" John B-bd© I>alley, wtio was mixed Up m the recent divorce case, has jfoeen vegetatin^s at Bathrtrst, ,th<i City, of the Pla'ilns, l f6r a yeai! aisd' <yditihg the '-Bathurst Advocate^" bids adieu to' s;w«set < rusticity tp bacpine sub-editor of the • pink "tJiill-etin," John Bede E-houlid be able td write spicy s6ciety pars about .our friskiest people. ' ' V ' ■■' ''■ ■ • •.'•■■> '■.' The late Sir John See, who xv.t's premier of this State for soaie years, died a .very wealthy . inah. His will, dated, March, »l» ly'Oi.his been lodged for probate, and „ Hit. estate is valued at £1-73, 044. Vvith, the exception of a few small , legacies, the estate is divide between his six children. i ...■'• • ■*.■•■■.:• ■..-■ ' .'. ', That Exhibition of Women's wdrk, to be held m Melbourne at . Cun time, threatens to become a hiikouss nightmare to the promoters, ViceRegality is working -it 1 elf. t:> skin , and bone, arrsinj.injr riw m s, fcodin!!: . all and sundry at 'four o Clock, lea m Ihe gubernttorial grounds, and speechifying for hours, m oder to keen the ball rolling. AKthe Town. Hall niesting last Friday every woman was presented to Norihcpte Dame afc her request, so any pn* who can hem a tea-cloth o r crochet a baby's foot may be numbered a-mo-ng the nioest people nowadays. ■• • o The Vice-Regal ladies are very optimistic. Judging from their speeches success is certain, 1-hou.a.h subscriptions are conspicuous by th-eir ahstnee, and the inahy lveK-conventiuns report no visible progress.- At Friday's meeting Miss Rawson went bock on all that was' -promise 1 ! two days before at a meetinjt; uk Raiwlwick. This SUito will not have a separate Court, neither will afiv other State have a Court of Ms own— all the goods wall-, be displayed as the work of Austraiian women, and. be jumbled up regardless ot where they came .from. So all the pow-v/ow aboiit' making a &iow worthy of the Mothin- Stnte is simply empty words— "ho •• Yairaites refuse to reccßinsc- us as i .sejia ratState. Probably Is.rt.W. iS just } . suburb of Victoria, and we should lie grateful for tne comrauni-ty rf senQinc: exhibits to boom marvellous Melbourne. Neither will there be a»i Exhibition m Sydney i\s i-rmoised. but simply a display to raise n-.n\>-cy for the p.ri^e fund. Ami r.s 'hese [(ern-ft do not suit Ihe women ot ;>7.5.W.. ,vhnle«ale desrrtions i'rom divers committees are t-hrcatenißK. m spite of tne pleading and the ""ond<ss?«n6ivn ul Hie Vi<,"e-!R«i>r«il ladies.