AT HOME AND ABROAD

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 237, 6 October 1928, Page 14

AT HOME AND ABROAD

' The shaded chiffon frock is the thing which dressmakers in Paris have brought out specially for the Eiviera this year, remarks our London correspondent. It may be in one colour only, shaded from light to dark, or it may be ni various harmonious shades, ■ deftly blended together. In one of the Paris "collections," sent over here 60 that London might see what had been prepared for the Riviera, I was struck particularly by a lovely, chiffon gown which began by being lime green and ended by showing' now lovely were" russet tones. Quite pale russett they were— suggestive of very deep peaeh with the ! warm brown tone'running through it. The frock was short as to skirt in front, and, cut on picture lines, cascaded almost to the heels at the back. The dividing between the green and the russet was so cleverly managed that you could hardly tell where one ended and the other began. • » ."■.'.• ■■»'.-■

One of the st'rangest_posts held by a woman is that of Mrs. Elizbeth Pratt, of' the Koyal College of, Surgeons, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London ' (says the "Manchester Guardian"). • Her work is the cleaning of 10,000 odd skulls,and skeletons in the college. Just now she. ia giving'"her collection," as she calls it, a special dusting in honour of John Hunter, the" famous surgeon,' whose.' bicentenary, is being celebrated at the college. She was going from case to ease of the collection when a Press representative found her. With a little hair brush she dusted each of the crevices' in the craiiiuni or the teeth, .and finally polished the skull with a duster. "Does it upset me? Bless you, no," she'exclaimed. "I have done this for 12 years now, , , and I have. grown quite fond of some of them. I could not like them more ■if they were cabinets of Crown Derby. I did get a bit of a turn one day soon after I started here. I was dusting a skeleton's feet, and' its hand -gdt caught in my hair. ~lt felt just as though the thing was trying to stop me. ■ 1 pulled' i myself together • though, and called an attendant to disentangle-the bones.. People-ask me if I don't get nightmares from,; working here, but 1 have never even dreamt'of them." .'