HITHER AND THITHER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 183, 7 August 1935, Page 2

HITHER AND THITHER

Children’s Garden Circle. A shop day will be held to day by the .Children’s Garden Circle in the shop next to Atkinson’s Mart. Donations. for jumble stall, etc., will be greatly appreciated. Bachelor Dance. In aid of the hall funds the bachelors of Kai Iwi have organised a dance to take place to-morrow evening (Thursday) in the Kai Iwi Hall. Good music, good floor, and a good supper are promised. A ’bus will leave Martin and Vernon’s at 7.45 p.m. Ready for Summer Days. Really wide-brimmed hatj nro going to be so smart this season. The first of them came out in a Wanganui shop this week and all eyes were directed to a lovely black one of shiny unchipable straw with a posy of gay flowers nestling against the crown. We are going to be really sensible about shady hats. One Wanganui milliner told me last week that they are designed so that shade is given to both eyes ana not only to one of them. Everything depends, of course, on the right curve •of the brim. Rough straw, leghorn, bangkok and panama seem to be the favourites and they have very little trimming. Russian Womeu and Dress. There has been another revolution in Moscow. With th<s active connivance of the Soviet authorities there has been a fashion display and mannequin parade. There was a little difficulty about th© mannequins, because the daughters of the Russian revolution do not incline to the sylph-like form. But anyone who knows Moscow in these days, can well understand the interest the display occasioned amongst the fair sex. For, in Russia, a foreign newspaper which happens to contain illustrated advertisements of the latest inodes in Faris or in London is passed avidly from hand to hand, and dresses and hats alike are. carefully copied. A foreigner travelling through the country not infrequently has the experience of being asked to display her fuggage. Dresses arc passed round for examination and sometimes travel along the corridor for people in other compartments to view and admire.

Interest in Needlework. Sufficient proof that women’s inter--1 e>t iu needlework is unabated is the exhibition of needlework which represents the best work submitted p 1 conipeetition from all Australian States , and New Zealand, and which was opened recently m Anthony Hordern’s ■County clubroom, writes a Sydney correspondent. The exhibition includes SU() articles, which are only a section of those submitted for Ihe competition. Lovely pieces of crochet work arc shown side by side with line white embroidered cloths and bedspreads, and | with dressing table sets. Most interesting to note was the popularity of coloured embroidery, in which many and vivid colours were used to good effect. The cloth which won the special championship prize, the work lof Miss Annie Shaw, of Brisbane, showed an originality of colouring in which many greens, blues, flames, browns, pinks and black were used in a most pleasing combination. A later message states that Miss Ruth Pearse, Landew, Temuka, South Canterbury, was the winner in the needlework picture section. A Better Understanding. Dr. Neige Todhunter, who, after an J absence of six years in America, has been spending some weeks’ holiday in I New Zealand, has had some interesting things to say about the people of the United States and the need for a better understanding in New Zealand of the American folk. This need, she stated, had been brought home to her very forcibly during her travels through New Zealand during the past weeks, from the questions she had been asked by New Zealanders about Americans. It. had made her realise, she remarked, how little we in New Zealand knew of the people of other countries. The American people were probably less understood than those of any other country. The Americans one met abroad were not always typical of | those one found in various parts of the States, and yet wo were apt to judge the whole on these few. The New England States were the home of the true “Yankee,’’ but this term was no more applicable to the people as a whole than the term “All Black” is to New Zealanders. The great difficulty in understanding them could be realised in the thought of the immensity of the country and the size of the popu’ation, and in the fact that th<’ population was divided by so many natural geographical barriers, such as the Rockies. There was no one American accent, cither, Dr. Todhunter said. Each section of people had a distinct accent of its own, and no Iwo sections had the same, interests. There as the same distinct conflict between the agricultural and industrial sections that there was in every country, and only when it was realised that the people had so many different interests iand occupations could one refrain from thinking of them as one whole group.