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Hokitika Guardian, 5 October 1925, Page 1

NEWS BY MAIL.

GIIU.S IN SMOCK. LONDON, July 21

Shingled beads, breeches, and green smocks were the order of the day tor th girls at. the Horticultural College at. Swauley. Kent, when they celebrated speech day yesterday.

Sir Thomas Middleton said he considered the garments more praetieal than Ox-ford trousers, and used the point to illustrate how women were equalling men in almost everything. The estate at Swauley is a model ot a perfect garden. There are some excellent- vines, and the fruit and llowcrare plentiful. In addition, there is a, farm, and a quantity of jam ix made and bottled oil the premises. The girls, as well as leaving hortiI ultnre. also specialist; in dairy-larm-iug. bee-keeping, and poultry and there is only one man on the premises. After a day in the open air. the first thought of the gilds i- tor sleep, us the,\ are always too tiled lo dance.

ROOM IN BABY GIRLS. LONDON, July ill. A boom in baby girls is embarrassing the National Children Adoption Association. Slonne-slreei. \\ . • Practically everybody who comes to us wanting to adopt, a child insists oil having a baby girl.” the secretary told a reporter yesterday. ■•The demand is so great that we cannot po-sildy satisfy it., and what to do with the baby hoys who are placed m our care is becoming a great proMem. If two hundred, lair-haired, blue-cved baby girls were handed over In the society to-morrow we could place them in excellent —and in many cases wealthy —homes at once. ■■ \Yc find that most people prefer girls for adoption because they grow up to he greater comfort in the home. Women who cannot have children ol their own are eager lor the companionship ill an adopted daughter. Recently a wealthy childless couple called at the society's oilier- and adopted, at sight, a particularly bright little girl, ag.-d 'J. whose mother wa* an unmarried domestic servant. When they first saw the child she was dressed in the rags in which she came to the society: hut halt-au-hour alter her adoption she reappeared nl the offices " looking." as the secretary said, "like a little queen." The child's new' parents had taken her to a hig store nearby and had had her thoroughly and prettily fitted out Food luck comes the way of all abandoned, or orphan hoy now and again. " The other day." the soeivlnry said. " a little destitute boy, aged just, over three years, was simply 'snapped up’ by an American millionaire and hi, wile who had come lc. London lor the express purpose oi adopting an KnslMt hoy to he brought no as their own -on ami heir. ■■The. had three daughters oi theit civil, hut no -.on. and tiny are going to "ivc the Ik>v everytiling that they would have given a hoy of their own." Among IN babies adopted this: month were a hoy, aged about 10 days, and a girl, about J months old, who were abandoned in the day nursery at \\*-m----lilev.

BAN" OX IVR LATHY. LONDON, duly 21. Yesterday wa- the 12!Mh amiiver-ary of the death of Robert Burns, and live Americans wen! to ibe Embaukim-at Cardens to lay a wreath of bay leaves 011 the statute of the poet. Having, ranged tbem-elves round the stame. about to lay the wreari: and another was photographing the -retie, when a keeper informed them ihui thev colli if not depo-it tli*-ir ofieting without permission. The Americans departed with their wnstiii. which for ;i iow minutes w;is badly needing a statue. Then one of tiie party took his friends through Die Embankment entrance of the Savov Hotel, downstairs to the Abraham Lincoln room, where they ceremoniously laid the bay leaves at the base of the Lincoln bust. ci.OOd V YEAR “WAVERSA ! LONDON. July 21. Bobbing and shingling of women’s hair have created a big demand for experi hair-wavei's. and. according to the manager of a West End harln-rs ,-hop. there is at present almost a dearth of men and women “wavers." "There are some hair-waver- who make £I,OOO a year.” he told a reporter yesterday, "for most girls with shingled hair have it waved once a week.”