OLD COUNTRY GOSSIP.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16868, 24 October 1925, Page 8

OLD COUNTRY GOSSIP.

THE 'WEEK-END HABIT. i MR. LLOYD GEORGE SAYS IT IS! WRONG TO,;SNBER AT IT. Mr. Lloyd 'Georg r e, speaking at 1 Llanystumdwy, ia 'Carnarvonshire village where he spent his boyhood, said: I should feci happier and more confident about the 'future if there had been more people living* in the country. There is a calm which comes from the country. It is the countries that-ha ve their population in the-rural areas that; In the end will pull through. I Relieve t-liat is going to save Russia in the-oiul. ■lt was wrong to snoor at the English weok-ond habit. The people felt that, there was a real need of something that the emintry.alone,gave them to •enable 'them to face the .problems of every day life. The diffor'enee between the difficulties of statesmanship after the Napoleonic wars were these: After the Napoleonic wars there was still about dnlf the nation, if not, more, dwelling in the country. To-day four-fifths -of The 'population dwell in the towns. NEW SPECTACLES CRAZE. FRAMES OF ALL SHAPES AND ■COLORS.

LONDON, Aug. '2B. More daring than hom-rimmed spectacles seemed when they wefe first worn are the brilliantly cblored eyeglass frames in dll geometric shapes now coming into popular use.

Many people looked at London through these strange creations yesterday. One pair, worn by a young man wearing Oxford trousers in • Regent street, consisted of triangular frames made of very wide crimson-colored celluloid strips. In Holborn a still more ■ext-raordinarry pair was worn 'by a -Woman, the frames Being lozengeshaped in :a purple material. Other shapes include octagonal, square, egg-shaped, and oblong. Every •color lias 'been made use of, and in some cases the frames are of ten and twelve different colors.

A West End optician said -to a. Daily Mail reporter :—tl think people have grown tired of hiding weak -eyesight as if it were a criminal tendency or something equally bad. They don’t want to appear ashamed of it. So they throw away prcntencc, wear -obvious -glasses, and are delighted to find it so successful that a few young fools with perfectly good eves have bought glasses to (look fashionable.

GRADE FRUIT. The popularity of grape fruit has spread from America 'to this side of the Atlantic. Grape fruit is .now a favorite course at luneh and dinner with many English paopk, particularly in the hot weather, when it is most refreshing. The vogue has created a demand for certain table appointments with which >we should otherwise be unfamiliar. For holding tho fruit silver-plated bowls attached to small silver dishes are sold in the shops. A special .knife, with a curved Blade point, is -very desirable -for -removing the Bitter pith, -and special spoons and forks are also preferred By most people.

GREAT REVIVAL"~GF SMUGGLING. MYSTERY MEN GP ROMNEY , MARSHES. RUSH HARVESTS. HYTHE (England), Sopt. 3.—Certain people living on the fringe of Romney Marshes Rave ceased to indulge in a little, smuggling-as a Bobby -with a spice of .romance. They' ;have adqpted the .game as a profession, -and .are making large .amounts of money By it. Persons in London, who are nominally agents for imported .goods, are clearing profits which the income tax authorities mover trace in the -books of "their firms. Adventure is gilding the dives of apparently orthodox Business people. Long stretches of the coast here are entirely unwatched. The fogs and mists which made lor searecy in the days of the privateers and frigates Still abound, with the advantages they held in the old days. The smugglers now ‘have the added advantage of swift .and silent launches, motor-cars, and the veil *df constant streams of might traffic along the main u-oads. COCAINE.

Snnill articles arc usually like most valuable, and apparently 'innocent motor tourists can carry such goods as watches and jewellery in the ’pockets of their “plus Jours.” These .articles figure .largely .in the list of smuggled goods. Silk, though sometimes bulky, is profitable, but cocaine is easily conveyed in small and compact ‘parcels. A shopkeeper 'Who ‘has lived in ’the district for yearn described ’bis experiences to me.

“Travellers come into my shop representing firms which are -obviously not English,” lie said. “They try to sell me novelties ’from ‘the Continent made where labor is exceptionally cheap. I ■point out that it is difficult ’for me ’to sell goods marked with their foreign country of origin, as fhe laws specify must ; be the case with importod articles. “They assure me ‘that ithe goods 'will not be marked. I gave one of them a test order recently, and the .goods were not marked. I know for that 'they were made in Germany for next'to nothing.”

DRAWING THE DOLE. Ex-seamen living in the neighborhood are often prepared for a touali of adventure, and act as links in 'the smuggling chain. One man who is believed to he concerned in the traffic is otherwise unemployed and draws the dole. Amateur yachtsmen can always find the .means to smuggle in small quantities of liquor if they operate circumspectly. French fishermen, floating about in mid-Channel, .are at times willing to dispose ot' an occasional bottle. The disappearance of tho .coastguards who have been “axed” during the economy wa.ve is responsible for the. growth of the profession. TUT; NEW TANGO-CRAZE. ,DANCING SCHOOLS BUSY. LONDON, Sqpt. 10.—lit is reported that the French Tango’will rival film foxtrot iiii popularity during 'the: -coming winter. Already the dancing schools in the West End of London are throbbing with gramophone Tango tunes and the rhythmic gride of Tango pupils. English visitors to Franco, urged ‘by the simplicity of ilm now Tango and the insinuations df the Tango bunds to take the floor, are now .perfecting and adding to their steps in private. Tango color, according to the milliners and dross designers; will soon be reflected in the autumn styles. It is the color of autumn leaves.

Tango shoes, however, which wore characteristic of ipre-war days are not likely to be ’revived. Many of these shoes had fragments of Imno let into the heels t oemphasise the “taps”; but' the kips, twists, and dips of the old dance have been obliterated, and the need of the “rhythmij heel” has passed. The first Tango band that has ever visited England will arrive: in London at the end of this month to play in a famous Loudon ballroom.