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Hokitika Guardian, 21 March 1925, Page 4

LINK’S TOO SHORT. He “A man’s as old as lie feels.” .Site: “A woman’s as old as she looks.” lie: “Maltese keeps me young.” She: “ Maltese keens me from, looking old.” lie: “ Since wo boLli agree, how about it?” She: “ Yes, let us order another halfdozen jars. Life’s too short to grow old.”

COM.AU “ CKXTF.X.ARY.” I.OXDOX, Jim. 2-1. A good deal of interest has -been aroused in linen and kindred circles bv tho news of the ‘‘centenary” of the collar.

The origin of this “eentoiiary” would appear to he in the I'nited States, whore, 100 years ago, a hlaeksmith’s wife—her name was Lord—is stated to have conceived the idea of making collars separate from shirts, for the benefit of her husband. The professional grime of Mr Lord’s apparel kept her so much at the washtub that she devised lids expedient to lessen her work. However, at the risk of severing our excellent relations with the United States, it has to lie said that the collar centenary seems more of a rebound than anything else, which has ricochetted ironi lcol) or so to our own day. For collars lirst appeared about 100 years before this 71ate and were starched (though with yellow starch! like ours. Some had hue round their edges; others were plain, and, though longer, not at all unlike the Eton collar ol llhdo. They were expensive, however, rising even to £O. chiefly because of the lace on them. in contemporary literature there is a trace of their being considered at one lime a peculiarly British custom. They were called “ hands.” and the name has survived in Ihe word handbox. which article originally held the collars sueh as may he seen in great diversity in the pictures of the Dutch seventeenth-eentury school.

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