Odds and Ends

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19373, 10 July 1937, Page 10

Odds and Ends

THREE Boston debutantes held a “coming out” party on a privately chartered “snow train.” Railroad and hotel men said that to their knowledge it was the first’ debutante party of its kind. Including chaperones, 88 persons made the trip.

TN accordance with the lust request A of Aliss Alice Cox, aged <i2, a nurse, a carefully wrapped unused umbrella given her by a doctor sweetheart a few days before he died many years ago, was cremated with her in London not long ago.

THOSE straight boxy jackets which * cause so much amusement when you look at pictures of your grandmother in the family album are becoming all the rage in the European fashion lists. The jackets swing from a yoke, and arc either plain or box-pleated. For ordinary occasions the jackets can be of plain linen to wear with a light frock, or vice versa, and for gala nights the jacket can be of quilted taffeta.

MO woman should go on a fad diet * without the advice of her physician. It is one thing to obsetve rational rules of eating, without stuffing oneself, and it is another thing to follow a starvation diet that may lead to severe consequences.

INTEREST in good cooking is becom- *■ ing very widespread. The English Folk Cookery Association, whose latest activity is the training ol women and girls to prepare simple but perfectly cooked dishes according to traditional English recipes, numbers its members in practically evei\ county in England, as well as m Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

“WHEN’ you take a woman’s pride ’away you take her everything,' declared* Mrs. W. Alarriott to the York. Ontario, Township Council, in asking'that women receiving relict bo allowed “a good dross and a pair or silk stockings once in a while,” in order that Miey may attend afternoon tens “as other women do.”