THIS AND THAT.

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18512, 8 March 1930, Page 10 (Supplement)

THIS AND THAT.

Obsession is nine points of a bore. Some people have a nasty look without being given one. The age of the clever women may have begun, but the clever woman conceals her age. Many a man’s daughter takes after her mother if there’s anything left in his pocket. Calf love existed long before skirts became short. Words which break no bones will sometime break a heart. Many a barber has cut an old acquaintance. The man who declares he was cut out to be a bachelor never states who cut him out.

LIFE IS TOO SHORT! “We are all too busy now in the daytime to be bothered with long skirts,” ! remarked a London girl to a friend i recently. “How on earth could we keep our hundred appointments if we had to hold up our skirts, carry a handbag, an umbrella, and dash quickly into ' taxis, buses, or trains? “Besides, fancy driving a car in a trailing skirt! Why, it’s ludicrous!” And she laughed.

NECKLET OF GLASS HAREBELLS. There was a most amusing variety of handcrafts in the chocolate and cream painted stalls of the Applied Arts Exhibition that Lady Lavery opened at the Horticultural Hall in London recently. Among Lady Lavery’s first purchases were three fragile-looking glass necklets, one of blue harebells and rose petals, another of daisies and their green leaves and the third of roses strung on golden wire. THE FIRST COCKTAILS. A French historian has discovered that cocktails have been known in Europe for centuries. They were in- | troduced into France from Italy by Catherine de Medici. Her favourite mixture was eau d'or, shaken with liquers and flavoured with cinnamon, aniseed and amber. “Rosolis” was another cocktail for which she had a liking! Its ingredii ents were burnt brandy, cinnamon, sugar, absinthe and Spanish wine, while the popular cocktail of the Court was made of brandy, rose water, grenadine and Italian wine. Fruit tins are useful for holding dripping, as they can be easily cleaned. A flat biscuit tin enamelled white and about two inches deep will hold four dripping tins, and will prevent any grease from marking the shelf.