LADIES' GOSSIP.

Otago Witness, Issue 3399, 7 May 1919, Page 52

LADIES' GOSSIP.

The home of Evangeline, at GrandPre, Nova Scotia, immortalised by Longfellow's poesn. of that name, has been purchased by the Canadian Pacific Railway, and will be maintained as a public park. A statue of Evangeline, which was being sculptured by Louis Philippe Hebert at the time of his death, will be completed by his son and placed in the park, which is a stone's throw from Premier Borden's residence.

The army council has made an order cancelling the prohibition of the sale of high-legged boots at present held in stock in Great Britain. The sale of such boots retail is now uncontrolled. The amended order prohibits any manufacture or sale of women's boots the uppers of which are more than 7in. in height if made of leather, and Sin. in height if made of any other material, except under permit. The high appreciation of the Army authorities for the Waacs is shown by an invitation now being made to the girls to volunteer for service in Germany (says a writer in the Daily Chronicle). Just as each took the place of a fit man in the critical days of the war. so each one who now volunteers to go further forv/aird will enable one more man to he demobilised an<J return to his place as the bread-winner at home. Hitherto the Waacs have not o-one beyond the Franco-German frontier. Mrs Charles Davies, at a recent meeting in London;, said that at a pawnshop she noticed heaps of fur coats on the

counter. The pawnbroker told her they had been brought there by gilds, once munition wo rivers. Sir Thomas Cope, chairman of the Leicestershire County Council, at the annual meeting of the Leicester Savings Bank, said he had come across a family working on munitions and £2O a week was going into the house. The

■mother said ;—“1 manage to get through it all.” Snow has been lying thick in Paris for over a week, and the Bois de Boulogne (writes a special correspondent of the Manchester Guardian) is a lovely scene. Besides American soldiers riding and Preach soldiers walking, and members of utie Polish Legion with their square, floppy caps, one sees there numbers of children— French children, of course, but more than half of them had English nurses, and were speaking English to them. It is very noticeable, this fashion for English-trained nurses. The children’s clothes are modelled much more on the lines of English children’s clothes—bright-coloured cloth coats and little beaver hats. —Miss Elizabeth Asquith, b” her. own individuality and energy, became well known in social life so young that the public awakes, with some surprise, to the fact that she is but twenty-two. Her approaching marriage with Prince Antoine Bibesco excites interest because of herself quite as much as because of her parentage. The Prince has almost double her years, but is young-looking, and is a very cultivated and charming man. He took part some years ago with success in a special mission from the Government of Roumania to the Shah of Persia.