NEWS AND NOTES.

Hokitika Guardian, 2 June 1923, Page 1

NEWS AND NOTES.

A small child can always be trustee to pass remarks at a time when .sileiiu would bo. ii not golden, at least desirable (remark's the Timaitt "Pest" i. At a bridge ]’nrl.v the ntlier day, where ril the players wete ladies, t'.e Itostess entered the room carrying two packets of cigarettes ami a box of m ■{idles. "l)li," raid' an cb-ervai t Mx-yeer-i-ld boy, “Do mummies haie jiipes," Mr \Y. George, the wc•ll-kmiwn uoveli.-t. has seme shrewd things to say about American women alter his visit to the l nilcd States, which occupied ten months. "It is no exaggeration to lay down that though not every young American woman is pretty she nearly always knows how tu seem ii. Site is excessively well groomed: she takes of Lor hair and her hands a care that the average Englishwoman decs not; she gives intelligent thought to her clothes.'" ]n the matter of clmlies and fashion, “where the European woman suggests, the American woman proclaims. She powders, she uses lip salve, strengthens Iter eyebrows, or thills them with half-circular brush stroke-, and holds her eyelids much more than the European. Also, when the fashion in eire.-s tends toward undressing, she is rather excessive. Tiiis may lie due to the hot summers; it may point to temperature rather than temperament : it may also express one side of her psychology. If I may generalise so far as to say that the English attitude in woman is to sit down and look sweet until someone notices her, that tlie French attitude is to edge away, but not too far. I suppose that f mav deline the American !

.-"jF|i,.-c i, i i i iiia.i ucaiie me ,\tucr."-ai altitude as a preparation to stormin', tic mild fortress which is called td < American man." Considered meni.iily Ah- George's impression of 1 lie .American wornrii i thin on an avenge sin is intellectually more develop.d than the European, potentially site is not supero,r. hut in development she i-. “The American woman i- to the European v.itat a tilled field is to an until,'ed held. Kite i- deiiniteiv belter inlo, tiled, more interested in new ide s. mote ready to accept a new the r.v of life. . . There is li.-.rdiv anything in which one may mu hope to ituerc-i her."

"I was prove ii; d on to v. rite a. !e tel for reproduction in the 'New Zo bind Scl-rtl .lourim!.' " remarked l.n: ,|i Iheoe 'luring Itis speecii a! the ope ing of .1 cl bene Bark.' Om-huni'ii. "Tit w eek I iv ci.i' l a |, t l.i ,' Irom • S in' Island liny, who staled that lie In been trying to read my message in D ‘Journal.’ hut was not able In read n: writing. His tea,'her had said to hi tiiat he bud Ir iter write to mo and :time to write him ."inithei; hller. oi inure plainly written." Ilis Excclien; begged ilm cltiidren nut u follow 1b SoUt!i l-iand hay's exrmpl". for I could not wriie any hcti.r i ban he ha done in t lie Journtil.” AX'it ii the lowering of price there hn iieeii an all normal demand for sausage iq AYaiigaimi (says the “Heri'ld"! and the machines, are kept running ttl most cunt ill ii Jill y to cone with the extr h ll si ll e. [f one v.'t!lit - l". see pan-els c sausage, by the score he ha- only t heard a tramcar after Imsiness hour any evening. particularly on tb Caslleeliif route. I Itisliands in litis In

, idii.v do not altot-'cf.her ainirovc ol the ■ ciieaiiening in j l l*i■ ". fur they arc called , iipo: hv tb. ir I w ivc ■ i cry . ft, nto j the-e are sometimes moist. I hey have a ) iieiiihar wav oi working through the i l.rowii oanar. and creating a little iitI ter lII' la null ter atm mg otb< r neettiiants I of the i r !na at -. j Air Got,.lson Kermiimn tails a story ,d ! the late I. nd Norl ini iII c I have not ! heard ip!ore. Tin re is a legend that • lord Xortli-iilfe hid fnti rt cm li'otiier:-' ' with hiit: in iii-' I'lisint • anil tiiat. a lilt 'i arrived. Tim y:v:e man tua \ comii.g down the stairs o! iii- ! ud'U ' Sir; o' iitiicn, in ti e dark', wiieo a mvtt < oiiting up harp, d into him. ate! wlml! tnlil t. bo ri|.,iv careful replied: "Ail ri,.!;! M tvd." ‘Yen address nm as

Alfred "' said I' '■ r! iieliii'e. "Who the d ; d are v =. ; ! sttepo-- > been drinking." "i ' • a Hit dark on these ■ me." said ; ; e > tin r v. idi a laugh, "hut y.ni (.:»'!;{ to iv"igui.e jj),,, I':,! \oii youngest broth' r. i’iailtag'Ui i. ills) down frmn (Ixiord lo do tile interviewing ‘Aii-wers* !" AVlieit (lisr iis-itig tlie que-tiolt of transperi .at the meeting of lit.' AYhangamotnon i County Count'd the cbtdrntaii ((' in neillor N . R . 1 b-land ) said I lull iii.- t 'on 111 v fori Until laid ;af lO'< much Itor-e t Mo, to de irom one end of tlie i,unity to tlie olker. ii’’ had know u him lo rid:- fori v and lorly mi!.- t b in one day. Reiot" lung Du- ;• nit!, ,1 would lun c, s>('• >vf .< i lie liiretmm w iI it a. motor i mi The "Rover; v Ik", Herald" "uephiitts of the praclii'C oi pt'rents albcvin i inla nI s and childt, ii ! ' vato I, r about the footpath-, and toad- in the busy part ol the town. A.u dliisl mi i, n t Ids wa- given the , tie r day. wis n a ciilli-ioii net tired helwccn a lady list and a n in fan t not much out of tlte loddiing stag". i'"<intit ll :il 1 -I \ . ueitlo >• was -,','i,ui.-Iv In,rt. but the eveli.-t shewed -iult- cf having I';" cited a slim k.