From Milady's Boudoir Brightening Home And Clothes

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 17, 13 October 1937, Page 14

From Milady's Boudoir Brightening Home And Clothes

#!J.OOD shoes deserve good treatpient and they do not always get.it wliile they are restihg. If you lack space to store your footwear, make them a wardxobe. A simple affair of a wooden box with a cdvering of furnlshing fabric is within anyone's scope, • • # • A 3ong box, to stand on end, is best. The fabric is stuck on with glue round ■ the edges, 'Wooden rods of the kind used for short curtains can be used for the rails on which to hang the shoes. The front of the "wardrobe" can be a straight piece of material that lets down and is clased at the top with a zippfastener. ♦ * ' * * f Knitting Bag. Knitting bags of various sorts are everywhere in evidence just now for where a woman spends her leisure hours there her knitting accompanies her. One of Ihe most novel bags belongs to the easy-to-make type. Fashioned from two slightly curved pieces, like ari outsize banana, it zipp-fastened down its centre from tip to tip. The two ends were brought together and attached with a clip, thus forming a handle so that the bag could be earried on the arm. * * # * Glass always looks well on a summer table and even hot food nowadays is set before one in glass. Have you, by' the way, noticed the heat-proof glasses that have their own walnut wood holders with cork bases so that they can be put straight on the table with no fear of heat-marks spoiling the polished surface? * * * * Salad Bowls. If you would serve your summer salads in the most up-to-date and inviting way, acquire one of those new capacious wooden bowls, the inside plain and polished and the undemeath. coloured. You have serving spoons to match. Or, if so preferred, your servers can be polished olive wood which has a fine grain. Wooden spoon and fork joined and used tong fashion are useful for serving salad. # * * # Mackintosh capes are so handy for putting on quickly over coat or frock hut, with any. wind hlowing, they often ' have the disadvantage of allowing the lower part of you to become very wet indeed. Wrap-over skirts in a waterproof material to match the cape with which they go, offer perfect protection. Ihe two garments together are really better than a complete all-in-one "mac," since the cape shelters your handbag and anything else you may be carrying. # # * * Colour in Teimis Kit. One touch of colour makes your tennis kit the thing, according to the fashion for matching socks and eyeshades. Pale hlue socks and a pale hlue shade of fiannel tightly stretched over a shaped frame make an effective contrast with a white outfit. Straw eyeshades in the same pastel colour as the socks worn are preferred by some players as they are very light to wear. # * * * Novel Bcarves, Strips of felt cut very fine and narrow, are being used for novel scarves to. wear with holiday suits. The strips are twisted «nd plaited rope fashion and the enda are left . loose .to form fringes or tasaels. Two or more coloyrs can be in&§d»ced into. the "rope."

Shell Jewellery. Real sea-shells make appropriate jewillery for \a seaside or cruising holiday. Earrings are made from small shells with a tiny cluster of coral beads in the centre. Necklets show the shells, with the pearly side uppermost, alternating with coral beads and there are clasps to complete Ihe set. * * Felt for Accessories. Felt, by the way, is very popular just now for all sorty of dress accessories, and if you are clever with your fingers you can make for jrourself one of the newest belt and handbag sets. The belt, of green felt, has a large daisy-like flower of felt, with white petals and yellow centre, hiding the hooked fastening in front. Similar felt. is used for an oblong bag, the chief feature of which is a flower like that decorating the belt, and two long green fe|£ "stems" that make double handles for the bag. # # # • Flower Stem Handles. This idea of using flower stems for a handle is also to he seen iii a new pottery jug for cool drinks. The jug is a tall one in creamy pottery and the stem, curving from a blue flower makes a colourful handle. Platinum, a new shade for pottery, also appears in jugs of this kind and the hright tones of the flower an& stem go particularly well with it. # * » • Wall Vases. Since plain walls and few pictures hecame the fashion, various ^ieas for relieving the severe look of the walls have been evolved. Wall vases for flowers and masks with comic appeal or of classic beauty have grown in vfavour and now we have china birds which can he arranged to look as though they were in flight across their pale-tinted background. * # * * Extra Cushions. Several small cushions of varying shapes are so much more comfortable than one or two big ones. It is a wonder that no one started the multi-cushion vogue before. In different colours, too, they can he arranged in such charming groups. One room scored a great success by having furniture covers of dark blue linen and cushions piled four or five together on the divan in pale blue and yellow. * # # «= Something new to wear later on when late summer produces cool days, is a knitted waistcoat with short sleeves, emhroidered with a white or contrasting coloured wool in a running stitch. Flpwer and leaf designs give the right peasant suggestion. Should such things suit you, have a' skull cap knitted to match. # # # # Gay Lapels. * The lapel of your tailored suit must have something to decorate it this season. From Paris come butterflies evolved from crisp white lace that are the daintiest things imaginable posed on your jacket. Lace or net flowers are also seen. More substantial huttonholes are cut from pastel-coloured patent leather. * # ■ % # Net is very popular with Frenchwomen at present. Even their shoes display it. It may sound absurdly fragile for footwear, hut when the net is wool and it is mounted on calf or patenl leather, it does not look put of placc in Jhe daytime and in guite durahlt,

Coolesfc Gloves. The coolest gloves for a hot day are those of linen with palms of stockingette. You can have long ones with embroidered backs for wear in the afternoon, and plain ones of gauntlet shape foir wear with a tailored suit.

TTHERE are only two students' in . the second-year class of the Architectural Course at Sydney University, and both are women. Of a total of 26 students taking. the course, which occupies five years, nine are women.

It is 56 years since the first women were permitted to ertrol at the University. In 1882 Misses Mary Elizabeth Brown and Isola Thompson — both University bursars— entered and won their Bachelor degrees for the Faculty of Arts.

In the following year, two more women— Misses Lily Dick and Jane Foss Eussell— took the path carved by their pioneerjng sisters. To-day nearly 200 matriculated women are in the Faculty of Arts alone, more than 100 of them in their first year ! Their chOsep subjects range from languages to mathematics, psychology, philosophy and the Sciences of Zoology and Botany. Doctors-to-Be. In the Faculty of Medicine, the growth in numbers has heen tremendous. Of the present students in attendance, one in every eight is a girl! This year, 29 girls, some of them exhibitioners, enrolled. The figures for the other "years" are:— Second year (19), third year (21), fourth year (15), fifth year (14), and final year (9). Two faculties which continue to attract unprecedented interest from women are those of Veterinary Science and Agricultural Science. Barely 15 years\ago, the total number of students in each was little more than the present-day enrolment of women. In veterinary science there are 13 women, with six in their first year.- This, even in spite of the recent lengthening of the course to five years. Agriculture first year boasts of four girls, with a total of nine women in the faculty. Dentistry claims eight. Four of them are only a year from graduation and three are "freshmen." Taking Law. Thirteen women are in the lecture halls at the Law School. The stimulating example of Miss Jean Malor, one of last year's graduates with first-class 'honours, may account for the 10 girls in first year rstudying Roman law. Constitutional law and the law of contracts. There are 48 and 42 in the first two years in the Faculty of Science. In both of these years there are only six more men in the aggregate. Thirty girls are hopeful of taking B.Sc., degrees at the Novemher examinations. The diffuse nature of the Economics four years' degree requirements apparently^ hold no terrors. Forty-two girls are aiming for a bachelor degree. Eleven are in first year, 15 in second, 10 in third, and six are doing finals. Uninvaded, the Schools of Engineering provide a sanctuary for males. Altogether, there are more than 600 matriculated women undergraduates proceeding to degrees— Arts 284, Science 120, Medicine 107, Economics 42, 'Law 13, Veterinary Science 13, Agricultural Science 9, Architecture 9 and Dentistry 8.