CHARM IN HATS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20261, 9 November 1935, Page 11

CHARM IN HATS

HIGHLY-DECORATED FINGER NAILS Recently, Queen Mary made an announcement that she will not welmoce as guests at the Royal residence those ladies who paint their finger nails in crimson and the like. Recently, we read, there was held a reception at Buckingham Palace and those who displayed highly-decorated finger nails were received only after they have washed off the paint. Most men, we feel sure, will be in agreement with Her Majesty in deciding against this latest fad. It is generally accepted that many women dress to please men, but it may be said truthfully that the crimson finger nails so popular at this time with the ladies are on a par with the blackened teeth of the women of some savage tribes and are displeasing and distasteful to men. VALUE OF PSYCHOLOGY That happiness was within the reach of everyone, whatever their walk in life, was the opinion expressed by Miss Nora Hales (secretary of the Institute of Industrial Psychology), at the Kooroora Club luncheon at Parmer’s, Sydney. The secret of happiness lay in correct adjustment to environment, added Miss Hales, and in a wide, sane, attitude towards one’s situation. The knowledge of psychology had made a great difference to three aspects of modem life—education, the law, and business. With regard to the first, she explained, teachers now studied the whole personality of the child, and their methods of imparting knowledge were much improved. The law no longer provided the death penalty for a man who stole a loaf of bread to feed his starving family. Modern advertising and selling methods had so revolutionised business by making the most forcible appeal possible that the inventions of yesterday became the necessities and commodities of to-day. One branch of the Industrial Psychology Institute, said Miss Hales, was know as the “worry clinic,” because the problems of various people who needed help were there straightened out, and advice was given to enable the sufferers to readjust themselves to life. LAND FOR WOMEN Plans are being drawn up for settling a large number of single women on the land in England (states a London writer). Some of them would be in “colonies,” others in bungalows of their own. They would keep poultry and do farming. The women for whom this outdoor life is proposed are those over 30 years of age who have lost their professional or clerical jobs as a result of the slump, and who now find themselves, because of their age, unable to get back into their old occupations. The Over-Thirty Association for Women, of which Miss Margaret 'Bondfield, former Minister of Labour, is a vice-president, is trying to settle some of these women on the land. It points out that a number of them have already had experience of land work—for they worked on the land during the war. The association emphasises that the plight of these women over 30 is a very sad one. In many cases they belong to families who were once well off, but after the war lost their money and the girls had to go to work. At present these women are trying to live on their 15s. a week dole. The result is that they are going short of food, and as the period they are out of work grows they find it more and more difficult to impress prospective employers that they are suitable for a job.