HERE AND THERE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 3, 5 January 1932, Page 11

HERE AND THERE

Notable "Woman's Death. According to the "World's News." the first woman to be elected to a legislative body in the British Empire, Mrs. Louise MeKinney, who gained a seat in the Alberta Legislature in 1917, died at Clareholm, Canada, at the age of 63. Mrs. MeKinney; was president for Alberta and world vice-president of the Women's Christian Temperance Union and the Imperial Order of Daughters of the Empire. • Speed Typing. •;. ' Miss Stella Willins has won the international, typewriting contest for two years in succession, and hopes to increase her speed in the next contest, states an exchange. To become the world's champion her speed, was 124 words a minute and an accuracy percentage of 99.9. She : attributes her success to rhythm and concentration. Crocheted Jumpers. The newest jumpers and little coats are not knitted, but are of crochet, states the "Manchester Guardian." Tho jumpers are made .in a. tiny open shell stitch into which coloured designs are introduced, and the little." waistlength coats of .fancy "crochet; This shell stitch, or an open square produced by doing one treble■ and' two -plain alternately, is a stitch which any-child can do. A new idea ib to give these little house coats a sort of Florence Nightingale cape. > ■ '-...-■., Royal Christmas Cards... All the. members of the Boyal Family have chosen all-British presents and cards (states' a Londoner). The most old-world of'all the cards is the one chosen by1 the Duke and Duchess of York. It bears a picture, "St. James' Park, 1660," from a painting by Gordon Browney which shows men and women in the gaily-coloured clothes of those days against a background of old trees. ■. . .».'■• The Prince Reptovcd. The Prince of Wales figured in an amusing little scene at the Hallowe'en ice. carnival at Grosvenor House: on 18th November in aid of the Boyal Northern Hospital (states a 1 London'writer). Daphne Digby-Jones, one of a bevy of pretty child flower-seller's, dashed up to the Prince and asked him to buy from her basket The Prince handed, her a pound note from his- waistcoat pocket, and chose" a carnation for his buttonhole.' ; Elated by her success; -Daphne ran off and returned in, a.few minutes with a programme, which she presented first to Charlie Chaplin /tot his'.signa? tiire, and then to Prince.::.; The Prince, .laughing, a good dealj; signed "Edward P" and returned it to her. She shook her.finger at the Prince and said,1 ".You. know that is not your name." "How do you.know?"asked the Prince. The child, rather covered with confusion ■by the peals of laughter, ran away again. She showed the signature.'td-her mother, who told her it was quite correct,: but she replied that she had been told that the Prince's name was David. • Feather Flowers. . ■'■■."'■ '■ ■'<■■■-■ The return of feathers is not only confined to hats and:, buttonholes jand dress_ trimmings- (states a writer-in the |'Daily;1 Telegraph"). ';; They; are; now to be:. used for. household ;• decoration other/than th? feather brush beloved in French comedies.; Feathers' are. being used for cushions, laid on flat in prim patterns. There' are discreet harmonies in white and pheasant colourings, to say nothing of the parrot tones .in yellow and blue. • The point of ■■'■ the feat-hers is less to servo as a. surface than to make a> spot of colour. This comes out all the more in feather pictures, which rare sometimes tiny, like little pieces of jewelled glass, and spjne'times on a bigger, scale, with very broad effects. Finally there is the feather flower. This is used very much'Jike an everlasting, and it- is put into a quaint type of vase.- . This is,-at'least,-the ease' where,'real flowers are more or less, imitated.. Where they r are checked or spotted the modern vase ; is used: In each case a very characteristic effect is produced. The. real flower, effects are usually- of the fluffy type, with big heads of flowers in all sorts "of colourings, according to the rooms. Where central heating is in vogue these flower-heads have many good points. The entirely conventional effects may be in sharp . blacks, and whites, in purples and reds, again according, to .the colouring of the rooms. Almost • any .kind- of ■feather is used, and hens, ■ pigeons, pheasants, parrots are all pressed into the general service of decoration. ' : ; ' A Woman at Geneva. . ; Becent news from Geneva gives the highest praise to the manner in which Dr. Ethel -Osborhe '(Australia),-.'alter-nate woman delegate 'to the Twelfth Assembly of the League. of Nations, used her, skill and judgment-in dealing with health matters, and in the: discussion of dangerous drugs. Dr. Osbprne spoke in the full Assembly on the'subject of the "Nationality of Married Women.'' Following, on the Assembly, Dr. Osborne was appointed by the League of: Nations Union (Australia),

and other - Australian societies, in-"cTudirig'-lho '"AuStraTra'at-Peaeration-"o'f-Women Votejs,-, to represent them at the great, disarmament demonstration held at the Trocadero in Paris at the end of November. This international Conference on Disarmament' was sponsored by. Viscount Cecil, the object being to bring together the leaders of the great political,'social, religions,'and cultural organisations of many-nations, to give expression to the feeling of the.peoples in all lands.in favour of a. sub, s.tantial reduction in armaments by international" agreement. ' Attractive Frocking. The slight doubts which were entertained with regard' to : "the weatlieri for the final day of the "Auckland Eacing Club's Summer Meeting at'Ellerslie'on Saturday, (says the "New Zealand Herald") were quickly dispelled later in the morning, when the" sun' shone forth in all'the. brilliance which had been a feature of the previous'days.of tb,. meeting. Once again, the frocking adopted a most attractive note, the chiffon and printed crepe'de chine frocks in their dainty fashioning arid colouring making the scene on the lawn a most picturesque one". 'The new style ,of sunimer footwear, very often in plain white or relieved with coloured leattier facings, formed ;an,,attractive fliiish; to the light frocking, as also did the many, large picture hats, which proved pdpu: lar on Saturday. ..;••: London's New Lady Mayoress. . : Sing, velvet in a lovely shade of rose dv Barry was chosen1 by Lady Jenks for the gown she wore: when she made her debut as Lady Mayoress at the Guildhall, London, recently (states a Londoner). The twelve, maids of honour were dressed in picturesque frocks of silk net shaded.from tea rose to deep rose. Over 500.yards 'of net were" used for these frocks, for. the full skirts were composed of four layers,' each ankie: length. The top layer was hand-em-broidered in a delicate trailing- leaf design, with shaded green and pink bebe ribbon, and sparingly besprinkled with beads. A slight '.'bottle effect resulted from two softly-draped loops of satin. The ensembles—which were charmingly youthful-lookjng—were completed by headdresses 'of velvet rosebuds, quaint tea rose silk mittens, and early-Victorian .bouquets of mixed flower buds. •' • • Wand, of Flowers; . - '• .1 .V .. The Prince of Wiles;recentiy visited the Scilly Isles, which form part of his Duchy of Cornwall (states a correspondent). Scilly ig ibe^ most serene spot in the British-Isles, i The winters are. mild and the summers entrancing Flower-growing-^chlefiy v daffodils; narcissi, and" stoeks-^-is'the chief industry. One morningr about two /years ago the Prince of Wales paid a 7 a.m. visit to Covent Garden. ;Hefßaid'he;had been told that that was the^hour when the Scilly. Isles' supplies reached the market, and he had an'experimental station of his.own in Scilly. Not long before after a visit to the Scilly Isles, the Prince had put two ;unemployed -Welsh miners and their families on his land in Scilly, to see how they- would fare as flower-growers. ..The latest reports are most encouraging: ■" .■ • • Dark Eyelashes for Men. s ; The vogue for having eyelashes dyed is not confined to women. Men are now paying secret visits to beauty parlours and having their once-pale eyelashes dyed black.'. "They realise: that pale eyelashes' give them a weak appearance," the ■ proprietress of a/-beauty salon, in Basil street, Enightsbridge, Baid,"writesa Londoner^- ''The darkened eyelashes give character to the face. Many film and stage aetori come for the treatment, as well as business men. The process of dyeing eyelashes takes only 40" minutes, and the result lasts six months.- A -purei harmless vegetable dye is used." The proprietress .'claims th'it' iSVher salpn'they can even"; enlarge'...jeyejs X :'*%*>()& £t 4"niine," she said. " They/hive been.'enlarged." An.. esaminaUoh-of;;her:.beautifuT' hazel eyes ,;f or a sign .pi the surgeon^s.finife, such as a tihy. Wai1 in :the corner,-re-yqajed no indication that .they-,V haa been touched.;.' ■:\.'v;' .'.: ."." Woman Harbourmaster. •■ ?.j..-?S; '■ -In all Britain ■there "is r. only "'"one ■Woman doing: the work'• of 'a 'hafb'crarnfaster in spite s'of •tIVe 7old teayirig' that Britannia rules the-waVes;: One'h'as to go] to Wales to find liert"' She: i's Mrk Jane Ellen Jones, of' ' Tycoch'-Inn, Porthdinilevn, and she ;is a- hale: old lady of 95 (statesianJo.verseas writer). Mrs. Jones.has;-been ■harbourmaster for 60 years. She <-couJd never have held the post all that time. ..unless she had shown much .common-sense, ..trustiness, and firmness. ' .-". ■. . : ;-'.>.....:: ••