JOTTINGS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19257, 22 August 1924, Page 10

JOTTINGS.

Black kid gloves which just barely reach to the wrist are quite smart to wear with a sleeveless summer frock in the country; hut in town we all wear coats fitted with sleeves if our frocks are sleeveless. It is no longer: considered “the thing” to he found going about town hare-armed. This year the cult of the tailor-made has quite driven the “half-dressed” appearance from the streets, ami “goodform” is once more expressed by adequate clothing.

After the vogue for coloured silk handkerchiefs, which trailed from pockets or were slipped through hracklets, we, arc in the midst of a linen handkerchief vogue. Colour, however, is noth quite absent, and we find charming linen handkerchiefs, with apple green, myrtle blue, or azalia pink borders, framed in by a narrow white hem, hand hem-stitched, of course. All white handkerchiefs to be smart must show a medallion of Brussels lace, bearing an initial or a quaint pattern.

For the tea table there are linens which range rrom a prim simplicity to the extreme of ornateness. Fortunately, a happy medium can be obtained by choosing a set of heavy white linen, simply embroidered about the edge with a binding stitch and a picot at. intervals. Inset into -each napkin is a corner motif of Venetian lace—a star or a spider-web motif, while the tablecloth shows a symmetrical centre arrangement of these motifs. Venetian lace, while always in good taste, is very smart at present.’ But one cannot go wrong in choosing real laco of any sort, provided always, for trimming linen, it is of a heavy, substantial type.

A widow in England, in her 72nd year, and after only six weeks’ painting lessons, has just had her first picture accepted by the Royal Academy. She is Mrs S. A. Barnett, widow of Canon Barnett, Her husband was the founder of Toynbee Hall, the social settlement in the Blast End. Mrs Barnett is herself prominent in a large number of welfare movements, and founded the Whitechapel Arts Exhibition and the Institute School of Art. in the Hampstead Garden Suburb. Speaking of the achievement, says the News of the World, an intimate friend remarked “Mrs Barnett was always fond of sketching, but had never pointed in oils until last February. Out of curiosity as to her own ability, she painted three pictures, one of them a seascape, and tliis she was persuaded to send in to the Academy just to see what would happen.” The accepted painting is called “Towards the Bight,” and shows a single fishing boat sailing towards the horizon.