IF YOU WANT POPULARITY.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18352, 24 August 1929, Page 12

IF YOU WANT POPULARITY.

Don’t irritate the members of your family by being stingy with matches. Family jars over trifles mean frayed nerves in the home, which do not make for efficiency in business life. Don’t be so economical with gas or electric light as to increase the danger of falling over the cat or any article which may inadvertantly have been left about. Short-sighted economy may produce accidents and subsequent doctors’ bills. Don’t keep any sitting room for occupation only when guests are present. Give yourself and family a chance to enjoy change of surroundings, with unrestricted use of cushions and comforts. Don’t when your daughter brings home a new labour-saving device, be prejudiced against it and ask: “Why did you waste your money on that?” Don’t give yourself needless work by hoarding things which may come in useful “some day.” That day rarely comes, while hours are wasted turning out boxes and keeping things clear of moths. Don’t use kitchen cutlery for everyday use and reserve silver for guests. Unused knives become blunt and get out of condition. DRESS. Never teach false modesty. How exquisitely absurd to teach a girl that beauty is of no value, dress of no use! Beauty is of value; her whole prospects and happiness in life may often depend upon a new gown or a becoming bonnet; if she has five grains of common sense she will find this* out. The great thing is to teach her their proper value. —Sydney Smith. 1 YOUTHFUL EVENING GOWN. Any young girl would look delightful in an evening frock of peach-coloured tulle fashioned with a tight-fitting bodice and a deep “V” neck. The full skirt is cut into handkerchief points, which are with gold ribbon, and the dress is entirely free from any trimming except for a pyramid of tiny golden rose buds arranged just above the waist in the front. THE “POLKA.” As a reaction, jerhaps, from an overdose of jazz, old fashioned dances—- ; even novelty dances—are finding places !on the programme of smart parties to-day. English papers chronicle the success in London this season of the polka. On wonders if there has also j been a revival of that once famous j tune, “You should see me dance the j polka!”

Eighty-three-year-old Mr. Charles Plume, of Enfield, has celebrated his Gsth year as a bell-ringer at Enfield Parish Church.

I On every ton of coal sold in London I there are charges or three shillings for ! wagon hire and eleven shillings for rail I transport.