WOMEN’S WIDOW.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume L, Issue 16498, 2 August 1924, Page 3

WOMEN’S WIDOW.

LONDON FASHIONS,

FOR RACES AND RIVER,

LONDON, Juno 12.—1 n the present weather tailor-mades of the classic kind, trim and straight with waistcoats and jabots, and three-piefce suits are likely to be most worn at race meetings. * A good many black suits liavc been made of tine silky repp and of the new alpaca (which unfortunately has a trick of creasing and seems primarily intended for those who prefer walking to sitting), and also of fulguraute and satin niarocain. Many are worn with embroidered 1 white jumpers.

Checks and plaids with large patterns have appeared, and some pastel dverchecks in Jine saxony and Kasha look well when carefully tailored. Checked shirts with plain coats, or plain skirts with checked coats —the plain material or the checked being used for rovers —and severe trimmings make appropriate clothes for the country and at races; they- demand small iiats. Three-piece race suits of fancy overchecks are sometimes made with' cape-wraps, and scarves are still important, either detached and tied over one shoulder or tucked into the coat.

Much box-pleating—the kind that is said to be permanent —is being used for frocks of all kinds, and coats and skirts of line materials. A good many buttons, too, trim costumes and out-of-doors light frocks. For the river there are many pleated crepe de chine frocks and new crepe materials rather likes the old-fashioned crcp.on, but made with a silky stripe, and there are a number of iinens which are said tqbc unerushablo, and also novel gingliftns and zephyrs with lingerie trimmings. White sleeveless frocks with colored borders to tlio skirts, to match either trimming or embroidery, arc for the river and for tennis. For these red is the best color, though blues and buttercup yellows will border and trim a neat workmanlike white frock. Suede girdles and belts in bright colors arc put on many simple frocks. Some of the new little colored silk coats lined with georgette in contrasting colors are attractive, especially when they are of the same color as the trimming of the. frock. Many are of printed marocain or crepe de cliine, and are cut in Chinese stylo but quite short. A less useful but more elaborate variety is made of calendered chintz flowers appliqued or sewn on a wide string mesh to look like lace, and for this a calendered chintz hat and parasol to match are required. More useful are the many new moufflon and velour sports coats, and there are tapestry sports coats, which are ,decidedly heavy though made on nbt, in bright colors. Parasols of crash embroidered in bright colors are being made for the river and the garden with stumpy handles in bright colors. —London Times. SHAKESPEARE PLAY TO BE PRESENTED' BY ENGLISH WOMEN. LONDON, June 19.—Women folk down in tho pleasant village of Westterham, Kent, are devoting themselves this week to a Shakespearean festival which would have gladdened the heart of the groat dramatist himself. They are engaged in giving a performance of Homy VIII., all the roles, including those of the king and Cardinal Wolsey, being taken by women. Success tending this unique production, and every afternoon this week women from the cottages as well as those great houses, wives of professional men, and oven charwomen, are turning out either to play in, or look at the all l woman performance. Many of the Tudor costumes, designed and stitched by their own hands, have been given brilliant and glowing colbrs by- tlie dyes which the women l Earned 1 to compound in their instititc: A young village girl made up realistically for the bluff King Hal, while a well-known matron essayed the equally difficult role of Cardinal Wolscy. An artisan's wife played the part of the cardinal's secretary, while the wife of the village ironmonger took the role of Anno Boleyn. One of thp enthusiastic actresses was a woman 70 years of age who had never,“play-acted." Thus women of Wcsterhatti and adjoining villages are making not only social but dramatic history this week. LONDON STARTLED BY HANDBAGS OF CANADIAN WOMEN. NEW FASHION HAS HEAD OF RACOON ATTACHED TO IT. LONDON, June 21;—Several Canadian women who arc now on a visit to London have introduced a new fashion in handbags, which has caught the fashionable world like wildfire. Tho bag is of worked brocade heavily decorated, and it has a racoon's head attached to it. The bug is carried so that the head appears to be creeping over arm of its owner, which givos the impression* that the women are carrying a small animal with them. Many inquiries in London shops for duplicates of these novelties have caused the giving of rush orders for several thousands of these handbags, which promise to be the sensation of the London season. It is estimated that there are fully fifteen thousand Canadians in London. WOMEN SPEAKERS ATTACK MAN RULE. PRESENT SOCIAL. SYSTEM BOMBARDED AT THREE MEETINGS. LONDON, June 20.—Woman's determination to fill her part in the political, professional and industrial life of England was expressed in two widely divergent assemblies of women. Frank criticism of tho conditions which men's niisgovcrnmcnt has brought about in England was contained in an address Jit Leeds before the Women's Co-operative Guild by its president, Mrs. Allen. Nine hundred women delegates attending the guild meeting showed warm approval or her criticisms and constructive proposals. "The housing problem will lie a problem just as long as men alone have control of the building industry," said Mrs. Allen. “A house is not necessarily a home and it takes heroines to make most houses endurable to-day." Believers in war* preparations came in for heavy broadsides from Mrs. Allen, who continued: "Wo take no pride in counting miissed batteries of guns,, winged squadrons of the air, floJiting fortisand arsenals. They juo all produced bpcuuso huge profits are made by inhuman armaments and firearm firms."

While Mrs, Allen was speaking Dr. Winifred Chillis, professor of plij'sehol-

ogy, University of London, was telling the National Council of Women, in session at Wembley, that “women are not going to take their proper position unless a good proportion of them arc among the people who produce industrially." At the same meeting Lady Frances Balfour made an impassioned plea for the opening of all gates to women, with tho assistance of men. MARRIAGE? POOF! OUT-OF-DATE IN FRANCE JUST NOW. PARIS, June lo.—Marriage is out-of-date. Nobody believes in love any more. Men haven’t enough money to get married. Pleasure and the means to obtain it are the only things that interest the Frenchman and Frenchwoman of to-day. These are the conclusions of Marcel Provost, foremost novelist of the school devoted to the study of the feminine soul. "For the young people of these days," says M. Provost, in reply to a questionnaire sumnitted to many leaders of thought by the periodical La Renaissance, "marriage is looked upon as a kind of catastrophe, or at least a disastrous adventure. Young women, who only care for freedom and are resolved to banish every species of tyrannical control, regard the venerable institution as the worst of bonds and, rather than accept it, prefer t;o go without husbands. Romantic love does .not exist any longer. There is now only one objective—monoy. The terrible problem of money has invaded France as a conquering tyrant." SIMPLE EECEIPE FOR "SCHOOLGIRL COMPLEXION." LONDON, June 10.—" Many a girl could keep her schoolgirl complexion if she only took brimstone and treacle," declared Sir William Arbutlinot Lane, consulting surgeon to the famous Guy's Hospit:il, speaking at the annual meeting of the Invalid Children’s Aid Association. "The man who lives In the Himalayas," lie added, "never has indigestion, iippendicitis, canuer or colitis. These things are increasing iind are the price we pay for civilisation. We are being wrongly fed) and the result is that the poor, primitive savage is a finer man than any of us." "IF"—FOR GIRLS. PARODY OF KIPLING'S POEM. The following entertaining parody of "If," "with apologies to Mr. Rudyard Kipling, and addressed to girls generally," is contributed to the Guisoloy (Yorks) Parish Magazine by tho Rev. B! M. Challenor. He was formerly curate at Guiseley, and is now in the Australian bush: If you can dress to make, yourself attractive, Yet not make puffs and curls your chief delight;. If you can swim and row, be strong and active, But of the gentler graces lose not sight; x If you can dance without a craze for, dancing, Play without giving play too strong a hold; Enjoy the love of friends without romancing, Care for tlio weak, the friendless, and the old; If you can master French and Greek ‘ and Latin, And not acquire as well a priggish mien. If you can feel the touch of silk and and satin, > Without despising calico and jean; If you can ply a saw and use a hami mer, J Can* do a man’s work when the need j occurs; Can sing when asked without excuse j or stammers, Can rise above unfriendly snubs and slurs; If you can mnko. good bread as well as ; ' fudges, Can sow with skill and have an eye s for dust; If you can be- a friend and hold no ' grudges, A girl whom all will love because they 6 must; If some time you should meet and love ? another, And l mako a homo with faith and - peace enshrined, And you its soul—a loyal 1 wife and mother—- . You’ll work out pretty nearhp td my mind iThe plan that’s been developed thro’ the ages, And win the best that life can have in store — You’ll be, my girl, a modol for the sagas—r A woman whom the world will bow before. A new fad among women in England is a notcji in the wedding ring to indicate a divorce. # >» # • A Kansas editor laments that the good old. days of chivalry are passing. "I started into a barber's shop," ho .says, and three women followed directly behind mo. Naturally enough I licit! the door open for them and stepped aside. Then they piled into the 'barber chairs and I had to wait- two Hours while they had their hair bobbed and curled."

Fur wraps, or black -cloth coats with the tiered skirts, and collar and cuffs of fur, were universal wear at the Grand National Meeting at Melbourne on July 12. The younger set was practically uniformed in grey tweed tailored costumes, and the variegated neckerchiefs which are being worn by every flapper in this city.

MILK AND POTATOES,

For three days a week, at least, living all the time on milk and potatoes, and eating nothing else, is the new cure for stoutness. One woman of my acquaintance declares that she lost a stone in ten days, through sticking to. this diet. It certainly docs seem to work wonders, so I give it to you forwhat it. may be worth, although I have always understood that milk and potatoes wore the two things one had to avoid if inclined to put on flesh. GOOD-BYE, GIPSY SC ABF. In Paris the gipsy handkerchief scarf is dead, but the long, straight one of crepe dc chine to twist round the neck, is .still the mode—if you have a black rep coat frock, for instance, which crosses over and' shows a vest of beige-colored lace or silk, you may have a buff-colored scarf with the ends of a length of black crepe dc chine. Buff and black arc a very fashionable combination, and almost rival black and white. QUEEN FAVORS FEATHERS. The Queen’s wonderful feather cloak, the longest, softest ostrich tips sewn on to a georgette foundation, has many imitators now, and never in the whole history of the cult of the feather has the dyeing been so artistic, both in tone and shading. Yards and yards of shaded feather trimming may form your parasol, your handbag, and even your bouquet. The prettiest fashion, however, is the lancer feather boa, which is so becoming to women of all ages. Feathers can be overdone, however, and some of the evening gowns are decidedly over-* trimmed in this respect.

WOMAN’S WIT.

Women, I think, express their sense of humor largely in their dress (says a Daily Chronicle writer). Men tell one another funny stories, but. ■women do funny things with their hats. But w'omcn are certainly witty in their dress, and like their favorite shops to display them wittily. One Oxford Street store has quaintly carved and boldly colored wooden heads with the latest cut in shingles, and the now drab face make-up, on which to display the “Hoxton” scarves. Another displays dresses on. futurist figures with only a faint resemblance to a human form. i

In Paris dresses are shown on figures cut from a flat piece of wood.

HER MAJESTY’S SCARF.

The Queen has adopted the new 1 ‘ apaches ’ ’ scarves, and wears a beautiful blue one occasionally, but not in the'“apache” method of tying (says the London Evening News). Softly swathed around the neck as the Queen wears hers, these scarves are really more becoming than when tightly knotted.

A coat her Majesty is wearing these spring days is of finest navy blue suiting, and, cut on tho favorite straight: lines, is made distinctive by tho introduction of fine pleats towards the liem on either side of the back panel. The top of the panel is beaded with groy and blue tiny glass beads in a wave effect. Tho collar is quite scarf-likh.