NEWS BY MAIL.

Hokitika Guardian, 16 February 1924, Page 4

NEWS BY MAIL.

BOOTBLACK'S PALETTE. PARIS, Dee. IS. One of the bootblacks on the boulevards now uses a palette when cleaning women's shoes. The Parisian woman’s shoes vary so much in colour that he found it often difficult to get the right hue of bool cream to match. So on Ids palette he puts a number of different creams and combines them the t. no 'tiro -hoes he has to deal with. Judging by t'ii‘ number of las worn n cu-tom-Tx ill: i hoi i- very stu\YOMEN'S -PAGAN" DRESS. MONTREAL. Dee. IS A stir has been caused throughout the province o| Quebec hv a decree issued L v Cardinal Begin, Archbishop ot Quebec. 11 10 Unman Catholic Primate of Canada, placing dances, inrl tiding t lie wait-/, foxtrot, and the one ;. n. under the ban of the Church. The decree threaten- to ban theatres and kite nias unless the tin- improved is. aa.!!v, isud it al-o sironuiy condemns the present la-bmaablo attire In' women, which ii cluinu cri-es as imtncde -t. As the lintel-, and cabarets have jusi arranged popular prop.mmuie.s oi dime's [or ( iii-isiuliis and the N*".v Year the t anlitml's de'-y ■ ■ has come as a heavy blow. Many private film(ion- | ;;! \;o heeii cum died ■ Describing dam-es, ini hiding t lie ' Idfasliioticd polka, which is not danced nowadays, ;s "hiM-ivious,” lit*' Cardinal says- "We expressly I'm Lid I hem. So if anyone - which God I'oriiiid -tle.rc indulge ill them or permit [hem to he danced in ids house, that per ..on would commit the grave sin <>l disobedience. Such dances, h.v the i hey imply, destroy virtue. !?.■ -, ;i 11 «: iniKlcrit female attire its ■ -mot her lorm of revived paganism, ’’ ihe (1 irdiral declare- -"The higher (ho i-Inf, hold by a woman the more s [;icf i lief duty not to allow women v ;.i L her to ollVnd her modesty." ECCENTRIC SERBIAN AND POISON. VIENNA, Dec. is \j,; : , (p.bohrancovich, the Serbian VMituau uho-c -eutcuee to A- vi.its iuiid labour wax inputted ycsienitiy. has been in nri-on betnre. On the present occasion, sic w, charged witli mixing white lead with the fond supplies of her i mplover, a I'chlisher mimed Siaulpiiugcl. Six vviii-s ago -It - Wit- sentenced to ~A (1 veers' im prison incut lor accusing the Id-vciil'x-ohl nephew cl In-r then cu-.pl'iver, < ill-din.d Pi he I. of I eying to ! : ii In. fatlier. At '.lint trial 'he was also charged with trying to poison the |’ilV.d family, but of tbi- -he was acqiii tied. ,\l her sceoiul l rial hist wet k i lie ;, ]|v aeouitteil her of murderous inlent in using the while lead. "ip. ih-y «. I: ideied that, sin- acted liutlicinttxlv. idtlmugh they could not agree i hat she intended to do grieve"' bodily harm. I Tl,'. pro.-coining counsel said that Ihrae eciiltiries ago Bultubr:, m ovieh v .- (|li M Jiavi* ! * .■!i lnn n'ol n. :» { mi'imv I'piici mlitiiE'i \\(iu 1:1 tival She was I moiiths under im dical ;,-f l ..v,| vatimi l.idore the trial and c:<- ~ I:e <• a - loll', rexjioti■ili!,- to a tier actions. i,. (luce ,he itt -i- ted that inquisitive stranger': should be ('.'.dudo.| Idem I Ii" com i and i lull ihe m f of opera -gla-w ; . should Iw bn bidtlev.. iveitod ;■ metrical ettr.-c put upon lift family -iv c.'ul it ii : ago when an an- , e .1,0- betray'd the Serbian-, to the Turks. M \D AT Til K ALTAR. BERLIN, Dee. PM The mother of Lrauz Murn. a Imud--leu p a ,i,l of -I. had long been trving to persuade him to marry Pauline ih-i-iidl. a. ricli widow with it la roe fa'-ni. Hi. objection was that the v.": low was Cl and ugly. I'ittally the mother persuaded him to saeiilicc him ell for the good of the family and take the willow and her money. When the bridegroom saw his liride teller tin the aisle yesterday to join him at tlie altar, his revulsion was -n great that he veil, mad, drew tli • dagger -e. 1 1 i• ■l l every peasant in Bavaria carries, and cut off his mother's nose. The liride lied.