MERRY WIDOWS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 835, 2 December 1929, Page 1

MERRY WIDOWS

“FIFTY-SEVEN VARIETIES” ON MALOLO

BARE LEGS AT BALL? Officially there are T 9 widows aboard the Malolo, but the passengers themselves say laughingly, 57 —“ Like j Heinz’s, all varieties.” One of the widows is Mrs. Onezina j de Bouchel. from Louisiana. Tall and slim, with a lovely complexion, Mrs. de Bouchel’s name has come ahead of j her, as she successfully sued Asa j Candler, the American soft drink king, for breach of promise. She is a keen club woman, interested in theosophy and history, and also writes on those | subjects. Among the wives interest centred in Mrs. Leslie Moon, who is honeymooning. And of the young girls there is Oneita Jantzen, who says emphatically that she did not go bare legged to an official ball in Melbourne.

Mrs. J. Maxwell Peyser, of San Francisco, says bare legs are a decided saving on the hosiery bill, so her busband naturally approves the fashion. “Coming through the tropics,” she said, “nobody wore socks, and even the old ladies exhibited a bare leg to the world.” An attractive young woman, with a boyish head of brown hair and Spanish colouring is Miss Gwendolyn Strong, the youngest citrus-grower on the Western Coast of America. She has 15u acres of oranges, lemons and walnuts at. Santa Paula, California. On her fifth voyage round the world is Mrs. Virginia Hutchinson, of Los Angeles, club woman and travei-lec-turer.

Taking an interest in educational systems of all the cities she visits, is Miss Jp.ne A. Carney, Ph.D., head of the Department of English, Jamaica' Training School in New York. ‘ Plenty of name and not much money,” says Mrs. Flora Cof-. froth Hughes. “Interested in nothing ! except my home.” In a trim little black suit, Miss Catherine McGrail, of Mexia (Texas), j says: “I’m just one of the many old j maid 3 pleasure-seeking round the i world.”