Fashionable Freckles.

Taranaki Daily News, 28 December 1929, Page 22 (Supplement)

Fashionable Freckles.

Girls with freckles, who were once deemed to be hahdicappe<l for public favour, need no longer suffer that disadvantage if the choice by the Illinois hairdressers of their candidate in the hairdressers’ beauty contest means anything, says an American writer. They have selected a Chicago girl, whose’ face is plentifully bespattered with freckles, to take part, and they assert that her freckles give her •’piquancy.” Foolish Frocks!

A woman’s dress was trodden on. in a London restaurant by her dancing partner, a catastrophe that has not happened certainly for fifteen years, and possibly not for twenty, states au overseas writer. It was not, of course, the dress itself that thus achieved immortality, but only those flowing tailpieces and streamers that are now so meaninglessly tacked on to an evening gown. None the less the social and historical importance of the event is immense. It marks the reappearance of women as voluntary unpaid and un- ! wanted carpet-sweepers and trippersup. In Victorian days they carried their sense of what was becoming so far as to sweep the streets and pavements with their dresses. We may e :to that again, for it is thus that the calendar of femininity marks the circular movement of fashions and follie-'. Record Families.

Which is London's - biggest family? 1 he- claim for a record is made by Mr. George Busby, who has been commissionaire of the Colville Estate, Bayswater, for over 40 years. Mr. Busby lives iu Powis Street, where he has lived for 37 years. He is 75 years old and has 78 descendant “Nearly all my children,” lie said, "were born in the Royal Borough of Kensington. There were 18—nine sons and nine daughters. Four died. Fourteen are married and are living with their ramilies in all parts of the world. J. have 53 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. So far as I know, they are nearly all in good health at this' moment.” Other big families in England include the Robinsons, of Central Nottingham, where in one family there have been 30 children, says an English exchange. Mr. Robinson had 24 by his first marriage and six by his second. He has had one child born and another die on the same day. He is 61 years old. At T.vvorsey, in - Oxfordshire, the Nelms have had 30 children, of whom 27 are still alive. At Twickenham, the family of Mr. Jimmy Wills number 21 children. Mr. Wills’s first wife was the mother of them all, and a year ago he married a widow who has had two children.