HERE AND THERE

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 72, 27 March 1933, Page 11

HERE AND THERE

Crinolined Belles of the Ball.

Women were racking their brains recently for the music-hall songs of their youth in the stately ballroom belonging to Lady Amhcrt of Hackney.in Prince's Gate. Having found these forgotten favourites, they are going to get a jazz band to play them at the Victorian Gala on March 23 at Grosvenor House, for which they are going to learn the polka, scliottisehe, and old waltzes, all of which will be interspersed with foxtrots and two-steps, states the "Daily Telegraph." Old songs to be played again in the ballroom after thirty years and more include "You Should See Me Dance the Polka," "A Bicycle Made for Two." Debutantes' and exdebutantes have decided to do Victorian dances in the costume of the forties at midnight, as being so much more interesting than a modern cabaret. Some of them will wear the actual dresses in which their great-great-grandmothers went to the ball. Miss Merial Dalrymple-White, one of last year's debutantes, is collecting a band of girls who came out last year or are coming out this year, to appear as the belles of this Victorian ball. These young people are enthralled both, at the opportunity of donning crinolines and at the prospect of dancing.the polka. Pantry Tea. A pantry tea was given on Saturday by Mrs. Charles Gill, in honour of Miss Georgina Hum, . The rooms of Mrs. Gill's home in Karori were decorated with blue hydrangeas, and an enjoyable evening was spent with competitions and the opening of gifts. The hostess wore a green georgette frock. Mrs. Hum was in navy figured crepe de chine, and Miss Hum in pale blue patterned crepo de chine. Woman Lighthouse-keeper. The great lamps in the lighthouse at the- Island .of Brehat, Brittany, have been attended to for the last fortytwo years by a woman. Mme. MariePerriiie Durand was the first woman to hold a lighthouse-keeper's licence, and was 38 when, on the death of her husI band, she passed the examination which enabled her to take his place. Finding at the age of 80 that seventy steps up which she had to climb proved too much for her failing strength, she has now retired from her lonely occupation. Indian Princess Barrister. .. Princess Jane Flux, a. full-blooded American Indian woman, has the honour to be the first lady of her race to become a fully qualified barrister (states an exchange). She recently defended her tribe in one of the Federal Courts, and obtained a verdict in their favour. Besides having been admitted to the Bar, this lady, though she does not practice, is a qualified medical woman. Jane Flux, who is twenty-seven years of age, is practically self-educated, and until she was nineteen had never been more than a milo from her tribe's reserve. A Memorial Window. In the Kent village at Wateringbury near Maidstone, a stained-glass window has been placed in the church as a memorial to a lady who was a lifelong friend of'the birds and all small innocent creatures (states a correspondent). The memorial is a picture of St. Francis with a robin redbreast perched on his finger, and a frieze of all kinds of birds —owls, ducks, magpies, and kingfishers—about him. By his side is a doe, and an angelic child, such as the Italian masters loved to paint, plays on his lute an accompaniment to the songs of the birds. The window has been placed in the church in memory of Lady Crofton by her husband. The artist who has achieved such a graceful fancy is Mr. James Kerr Lawson, who painted the Peace Poster which appeared on Armistice Day of the tillers and harvesters bringing home the produce of the soil. ' To Brighten Leather Bags. After a year of accumulating dust and grime in the boxroom, the holiday trunks and suit cases, leather bags, and straps usually emerge dingy and bat-' tered-looking when packing up begins (states a correspondent). The best way to smarten them up again is to treat them to a spring cleaning with a solution of oxalic acid water. Dissolve the oxalic acid in a little warm water, and sponge the solution over the surfaco of the leather. Leave to dry tharoughly, and then polish the leather with a good furniture cream. You will find your dilapidated cases will shine like new after this treatment. This is a useful hint for renovating leather goods of all kinds. Women of Bulgaria. A Bill permitting women to practise as lawyers is being submitted to Parliament at Sofia, capital of the Bulgarian Kingdom (states an exchange). This is the third time such a Bill has been proposed. Women in Bulgaria may be doctors, dentists, chemists, and teachers, and they may carry on business, but so far they have not been permuted to be lawyers. Nor have they political rights.