JUST GOSSIP

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18524, 2 January 1932, Page 3

JUST GOSSIP

Lady Lavery. as talented as she Is beautiful, will hold an exhibition of portrait sketches in London this month. Her head appears on Hie coins of the Irish Free Stale, and she is even 'beautiful enough to pose as the model (or the victim!) in her famous husband's picture of a dental surgery. Truly "that which is one man's food is another man's poison." Bernardo Maniscalco, of 'Lakeside, San Diego. California, grows prickly pear for shipping to New York, where the Italians and other Continental people think them the greatest delicacy. The three varieties of Ihe fruit are used, the white, pink and yellow, but Ihe red is more in demand because of its arlislie colour iu food. From ‘2O to 30 men and girls are employed picking from this mie farm, their hands carefully gloved. Some of the girls arc so deft. Hint they can pick and pack 110 of Hip, 201 b. fruit, boxes a day. each box bringing is 2d at least on the market.

Since meshes have come into poptiliarity Marion Shilling tells us she finds that many ..f her clothes do not have to lie, pressed. From shoes In hat—one can' wear an entire costume of some sort of mesh material. Even underwear this season comes in entlon, linen, and silk mesh.