HERE AND THERE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16495, 4 August 1921, Page 6

HERE AND THERE.

HAIR TO MATCH FROCKS. Bifierent-coloured hair according to the time oi day is the latest beauty device \viiieh Parisiennes nave adopted. This is produced not by wige, but by what are described as ‘' transformations. ’ These consist of a vapoury tinted net oi hair. The blonde girl may find that for her morning walk chestnut locks go better with her morning frock. For a dance a black and silver frock goes better perhaps with black hair. . ' The favourite scheme for dresses next autumn will be black and white. When colours are there will be a lavish display of stripes. For instance, stockings are no longer to be black; for some time past the favourite shad© has been grey, but stripes in different colours are to be the really fashionable design. Dressmakers are again making an tempt to lengthen skirts, but both British and American buyers have instructions to refuse to take any models which go too far in this direction. PRINE El TEL FINED. Prince Eitei Freidfich, second son of the ex-Kaiser, was in Berlin fined .000 marks (normailv £250) for giving securities and money to the value of 837.000 marks (normally £16.850) to the banking house of PHlippsohn. Grusser and Co., with a view to its transference to Holland, tnorebv infringing the law forbidding the export of property without the knowledge of the taxation authorities. The Prince, a tall figure in a black overcoat and wearing an Iron Cross, did not deny the charge, but argued that he had acted in self-defence. Replying to the judge, lie said : “ We were in a critical position after the revolution. The private property of members of the Roval House was to be seized—at any rate, we read so in the newspapers. We reckoned not only with the possibility of the confiscation of our propertv. but also of its attachment by the Entente. “Mv house was not verv safe. I got letters in which threats were made that it would be blown up. I considered, as father of a fafnilv. that my du tv was to secure something for my wtife.” ‘ men must marry. An Anti-Bachelor Bill introduced into the Turkish Nationalist Parliament at Angora makes marriage compulsory for rhen over twenty-five. Defaulters will be fined a quarter of their earnings, which will lie deposited in agricultural banks to help peasants to marry. No adult Civil Servant may be a ba heldr. Gifts oi kind, loans and State education for children are held out as rewards for marriage with a penalty of hard labour for a confirmed bachelor. For rcpopulation purposes well-to-do Turks under fifty are encouraged to ke«p two wives. WHERE TWO WIVES AR* LEGAL. Members of the Fbrst Reformed Church of New Brunswick, New Jersey, have been perturbed by the news that the disap|>earance of Air Shubei Siver, an elder of the church, early this week, coincided with that of an eighteen-year-old schoolgirl and of £ls 0 of the church funds, and that the elder and the girl were married at the Connecticut town of Greenwich. Air Siver, who is an elderly man, already has one wife to whom lue has been married for twenty-five yearn, and is the father of three grown-up sons. He has avoided the obstacle to a further union by taking advantage of the Gretna Green facilities offered by the State of Connecticut. Under its marriage laws a union contracted bv persons already married is not bigamous provided that the second marriage not consummated within the State boundaries. The mother of the girl whom Afr Siver married while already having n wife, attended her daughter’s wedding. A warrant was issued by the New Brunswick police for the arrest of Air Siver on a charge of embezzlement of church funds. EVEREST EXPEDITION Arrangements for the expedition to ATr»unt Everest formed the main theme of the presidential address of Lieuten-ant-Colonel Sir Francis Younghusband at the anniversary meeting of the Royal Geographical Society. “At great heights,” he said, “ men get very nervous and irritable. At 16,000 feet they begin to lose patience with one another, and the higher they climb the deeper they hate. A sample calculation will show what at 26.000 feet will be the intensity of their repugnance. Yet it is at this point that they will have to be closest to each other, and most continually together. In order to economise baggage they ‘will have to sleep together in the same sleepingbag at night; and by day, owing to the danger of tinmountain slope, they will have to be on a rope tied inseparably together, they will be in a highly irritable state, tired to extinction of one another. each longing for a moment’s respite from the other, and yet they will have to disguise their true feelings, keep smiling, and. above everything, remain staunch and loyal to each other .and to the object of all their efforts; for a flaw here, dissension at the supreme moment, would ruin the whole expedition.” COLONIAL *CLIPPERS. The colonial clippers are staunch vesseis. An old Australian one, the fullrigged iron ship Hesperus ran regularly in the ’nineties cariu. ing passengers and a large number of cadets. The Hesperus and the Harbinger were bought in 1890 by Alessrs Devitt and Aloore, who carried on the Brassey scheme of ocean training. The Hesperus was a speedy craft, which once made the voyage from the Lizard to Port Philip Bay in sixty-nine days! Nine years later she passed into Russian hands and as the Grand Dueliess Alaria Nikolaesna still carried. on ns a training ship. Site is now a British ship tgain, and under the name of Silvana is lying at Birkenhead ready for the auctioneer’s hammer.