"BY THE WAY."

Hutt News, Volume 2, Issue 37, 20 February 1930, Page 7

"BY THE WAY."

Women ' ' listen ers-in' ' to the reception of bur Hiitt hero (Airman Ghichester) must have been very tickled at the attempt' of the announcer to describe ladies' "gear"! He was evidently at his wit's'end foa. food for ".talk'/—had cast ah appraising eye round the haTbour, and described its' glories, had referred once or twice $o tie brisk breeze, and. happily compared our lot with that of our Australian neighbours, had i;bld us of a Hobart girl who had found- it necessary to sit in a cold bath most of the day to bring down the, temperature, and then (from his somewhat rickety perch in a crane), his despairing eye lighting on a' bevy of- girls clustered xound the gang-way to welcome the hero—a dubious, "Now, if only -I could describe Paris - fashions! '' Then, " necessity proving the mother of 4nvention," "Well, they are all wearing black and yellow sask'es— the Aero Club's colours—-and the first' young lady has on a /shiny' black frock, and hat en suite! (Splendid!) The—-er—second is wearing a green creation and stockings to match! <N"ol ]STb! I don't mean, of Course, 'green' stockings, but stockings -to harmonise!" The next lady's toilet was evidently completed with a"nice" fur. Her. neighbour',s frock—if we can trust the veTaeity of our announced —must have vied with Joseph's "Coat of -many col-; ours"-1-the envy of our ehildhoo.dr Never mind, we take the will for the "deed! ..

AT; a tea party the day after our electric. light failed us "nearly'^ alH^ tie evening, there was some little complaint from, housewives whose various avocations had been -rudely interrupted! But one of the party triumphantly remarked, "Well, we . managed beautifully. I had twenty-four birth,--day candles in the house, so we stuck them on two plates, and I also -had a common household one, and the light was so good that I was *able to darn, and Tead by it, and anyone wishing to ( make a pilgrimage to another room, did so by the light of a birthday candle! " Nevertheless, we hope that the necessity for S; such ingenuity will not occur' too often! i ... •>