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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXV, Issue 18616, 11 July 1930, Page 4

Sewing Machines in the Sahara: The modernisation of the Sahara is vividly described in a London paper by Miss Marthe Baylis (says an exchange) a young explorer who has recently returned from a tour in Africa. In some of the primitive houses are to be seen modem treadle sewing machines, while motor-cars and even gramophones have now found their way there. Mattresses and cushions are covered with muslin that hails from Manchester, and in one house the walls were plastered with clocks of every kind. These, however, were more ornamental than useful, foi the host was quite unable to read the time.

Fashionable Black: Very little else looks as distinguished in a crowd as black for evening wear, and there is more and more black being worn at the moment. At a London reception recently several of the acknowledged well-dressed women in London were all wearing black frocks, among them Lady de la Warr, whose dress was finished with a train gracefully draped from the shoulders, and long sleeves. Lady Clanmorris wore •black, and yet another was Elinor Glyn, the well-known writer; her unrelieved black frock made an effective setting for the beautiful necklace she wore, composed of three long rows of large pearls—the new-fashioned kind that are shaded in soft pastel tints, like rhinestones.