GENERAL BOOTH ON HATS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22505, 25 February 1935, Page 18

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" bonnet to modern " postage stamp" hats. • In a reference to modern fashions, General Booth said: "I would back my uniform against some of the present 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 o£ 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 am saved a lot of trouble.'" General Booth also stated that in Chicago she had a proposal of marriage from a man who said to her: " I think the time is coming when you should seriously consider the question of marriage." " I said. ' I \ave. That is the reason I am single.' " I come to you," added General Booth, " with the same name as that in which I went to America, and I hope to be more worthy to bear the name of my father." .