Fashions and Furbelows

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17567, 18 June 1925, Page 12

Fashions and Furbelows

EGYPT AGAIN. Another note from Egypt appears in the Sphinx's bead decoration. The age-old symbol of the enigma of the eternal feminine appears on jumpers, bags and gloves. Everywhere, in short, where the monogram was seen the day before yesterday. THE BANK BALANCE STATUS. AMI AT IIICTT AND TC ST! AH E. (By DOREEN DAWSON.) You will sometimes find a most perfect friendship existing between two people of whom one is possessed of a snug bank balance while the other can barely made ends meet from week fa week. The rich party to the comradeship contract feels no sense of irk in tho company of i 1 10 poorer member. Nor does the latter feel patronised in any sense. Each has sometiling to give.the other that has nothing to do'with rnopey. But how different a state of affairs prevails in the case of most blood relations held asunder by difference of social status’ Presumably because the existence of the blood tie imposes a sense of obligation ou the wealthier members of the family in respect of the less fortunate ones, who in their turn avoid the bank balance owners or cringe before them in their shabbiest clothe's. mnr at. loss. Act between reasonable human be-

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ings it surely ought to he possible to ignore money standards! It is obvious that the rich and ’poor members of one family might very well serve 1 n© another in ways far removed from the trail of lucre. I boil* widely divergent- experiences culled from their differing walks in life should prove mutually entertaining and srpietimcs mutually helpful. It is tlii-- very difference in social circumstances that frequently makes for the liveliest ! and most sympathetic comradeship be- > tween, two unrelated folks at opposite lends of the social scale: between, the j artist, for instance, and the man who i lias made his money in “ trade,"’ but ) lias the dilletante s ],,vc of art. and delights i:i artists’ company. Similar points of contact might very well fie established between members of a .socially mixed family, if only on 1 fie one side they could dismiss tho idea that their poor relations envy them: and on the other get rid of the notion that rich Aunt Susie or Uncle Janies will think ihev are being run after “ with a. lively anticipation of A SWEETEN ING SINCERITY. There are so many things in life ilia I, can bo shared bv th-. owner of jibe Rolls-Royce and tfios,. nho mu>t j perforce . ...jut. carefully their penny I ’bus fares. Naturalness nud sincerity take no account of such social discrepancies as Sheraton and deal, caviar© and cottage pie. There are so many things outside mere material possessions, thank heaven ! When two people can respond together to a sunset c.r a sonar, to the laughter of little children or the tears of the afflicted when they can think mid feel to getlior in any one of the myriad realms that hav© nothing lo dc. with bank balances is it not rather loolidi lo remain aloof from motives „f foolish pride ?