NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 20 September 1921, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

\<>.\-ST(>P D.VNCIMi. I’AliIS, July l'S. I’iiris this year has entered vi ry li'ui lily into i lie spirit of kin- National I'estival of July I. I'ostcd oil unr i! 11 ‘ Willis are (lllicial fund SUpel'lluOlts) exhortations to Parisians to oiil, drink ;iuil mo merry. Till' oi'oy of darn-in;; pii•nioltiii;:, and family parties bepau yesterday alTi'i'iamn ami is duo iu most oases to continue with hut scant pauses for sleep till Monday morniny, whin, tired but satisfied, the workmen, clerks and employees will return to their daily routine. To-uielif the duneinp; at street corners and in the ureal .'<|iiares will < o 11_ liime without interruption as lone ;is tliere is anybody left willing to wait/ or polka. Six hundred and forty handstands have been installed llirouohout Paris and it is expected that iaz/ine will eo on all nieht.

SHOUT SKIRTS WIN. CAT?IS, July 28 Cushion experts fear that the d arcing cm nr*. which is now ;ifc its height, ninny all'erf their decree that shirts must lie longer. They dure not Inuncli dresses reaching to the ankle. Instead, they have been content with longer overskirts or alternatively, longer panels, us » preliminary conipromise. l’arisiennes long ago discarded corsets and refused garments calculated to retsriet movements. Cushion aethoritie- now fear that in introducing linger skirts they have made a mistake, which the hot weather makes still more glaring. Tt is believed that English and Ameri can women, accustomed to tile greater freedom given liy short skirts, will slirink from longer dresses.