VARIOUS CABLES

Southland Times, Issue 17599, 11 March 1914, Page 7

VARIOUS CABLES

dksclndant ok prixck POTEMKIN. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) ST. PKTIORSBK RO. March P. A news pressman lias discovered the sole surviving descendaiv. of Prince Potemkin selling tickets at a cinema theatre. lie proudly showed his family patiers, which were proved authentic. MOD K l;.\ KA SMIOX S. LONDON'. -March P. 'i’lie modern fashions constitute the most bewildering medley imaginable. Women in past centuries have hared their throats, shoulders, and arms, but never before have they showed such masculine tendencies about their nether limbs. Tliis season's tailor-mades express the spirit, of the age. They op.-n at the throat with a softly-lying lawn collar and a touch of gay embroidery in the waistcoat, which is of jaunty cut. The coat is audacious, permitting of 11 1 • ■ lifting of the skirt. It is no good being shocked at its audacity. Knr youth is almost always audacious. The tailor-mades are essentially young this season. Si-I’M BOVS. LONDON. March P. Carefully - compiled records of Tel slum hoys have been observed by Dr Mackenzie. While their physical condition and measurements are below the standard of the well-to-do owing to hick of leisure, fresh air. meal food and heredity. they challenge the eugenists’ statement that the fruit of had stock is hopelessly inferior. Dr -Mackenzie had expected childr.-:i of such parents to have many disquieting features, but he (-(insiders that th--y are not badly equipped for life. ACCIDENTS IN LONDON. LONDON, March P. There were IS,P-11 street accidents in IP IS. eii icily due to motor traffic, and r. 7 0 tvere fatal. Mils i:oi;i;i:t i-ons stkvkxson. N K\V YORK, March 0. Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson's will bequeathed live dollars to Mrs Katharine Osborne, the divorced wife of Mrs Stevenson’s son. declaring her “a woman of incredible ferocity." Mrs Osborne declared the will to lie :m old one, and says that before Mrs Stevenson died amicable tolations bad been restored.