ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Patea Mail, Volume L, 31 July 1929, Page 4

ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There's a bride in Christchurch who is contemplating a lilac wedding very soon (says “Penelope,” of the Christ<ihui!cih When the isiweofscented blooms deck the suburban gardens then she, too, will array herself in softest mauve, and with the organ music instead of the chirp of the birds for her bridal music she will take a flight into matrimony. Sprays of lilacwill wander between the fruit salad and the sandwiches on the festal tables and- the bridesmaids will carry lilac bouquets.

How a rich American’s offer of a luxurious home am! £.IOOO a year to the women who would become his wife; has been declined is told by the Rev. Joseph Shepherd, M.A., minister of Islington Chapel, in London. Mr. Shepherd was asked hy a rich American of early middle-age, living in How York, to find him a wife, but, although Mr. Shepherd put this proposal to a women’s meeting at ids church not one woman present showed the slightest interest in the suggestion.

Pockets, which wo have become used to doing without—have “come back” again. IVo are to have an orgy of pockets, if we have nothing to put in them but a handkerchief or a ticket. We arc to have circular pockets, lozenge shaped pockets," pockets which look as if they have “hit” the skirl at random, and business-like looking pockets.