TWO PICTURES AND SOME SHOPPING

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2722, 17 March 1916, Page 3

TWO PICTURES AND SOME SHOPPING

"Well, my dear," said Mrs. Barr, "is it to be the Empress Picture Theatre this afternoon, with a cup of tea in the circle ?"

"Yes," said Mrs. Johnson, "I do so want to see 'Up from the Depths.' It's such a fine story of a woman's redemption. And next week we are to see 'The AVolf," a romance of the Canadian backwoods—always a fascinating setting for those strong, virile dramas of human nature. It tells of a woman's wrong and the avenging of it, and I believe is a very powerful drama."

"To-day's more or loss of a holiday—at least, for a great many people it is—so wo must do our shopping early. St. Patrick's Day, you know." "Oh, yes—so it is. I had nearly forgotten. Which reminds me —have you seen the St. Patrick's window in the Bon Marche in "Willis Street? Quite a gorgeous display of millinery novelties, with popular chic silks and velvets, the new costumes with the latest high fur neck, the new velour coat, and a special display of underwear in the new coloured cambrics."

"How interesting! We must certainly see it. By the way, before I forget about it, I want to get a supply of disinfectant at the Wairarapa Farmers', on the Quay. lam getting quite nervous about this dreadful epidemic of infantile paralysis, and aril not going to run any risks. The Wairarapa Farmers' keep a largs supply of various kinds of disinfectants."

'I must get some, too—one. cannot "be too careful, you know, and prevention is better than cure."

"It is indeed. By the way, let us have lunch together at the Tyrol Booms, in Manners Street to-day." "Delighted! I took my husband along there the other They have a smoking room there for gen. tlemen, and I think that must have been, the last littlo touch that captured him. We hnd such a nice lunch, too—three courses for a shilling." ■'My husband took me to supper thern the other evenins, and we quite enjoyed ourselves."—(Published by arrangement.)