MISCELLANEOUS.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 October 1927, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

FADING AUSTRALIAN BEAUTY LONDON, Oct. G.

“Unilike the English ‘milk-maid’ typo, the Australian girl blossoms quickly, and soon fades, despite her open air life,” declares Mr George Coates, the Australian artist, contributing bis views to the “Daily News” controversy on types of beauty. He blames the terrible north wind, which, lie adds, would almost compel an Australian girl, who cares for her complexion, to wear a mask.

WOMEN USE WHIPS. NEW YORK, Oct. 7. Horse-whipping by women was reported twice last week. A wife thrashed her husband in front of tho police headquarters at Boston for failing to support her. An Illinois woman church-leader horse-whipped a woman for associating with her husband, who was previously expelled from the police foice for dancing with flappers while on duty.

LUCKLESS RHODES SCHOLARS. LONDON, Oct. 6. “The Sporting Life” laments the effect on Rhodes scholars of Oxford’s and Cambridge’s decision to limit inter-’Varsity sports to students under the age of 23. It adds, however, that the chances of getting a blue will be brighter when Dominion students are not competing.

W \TER-CRESS WREATHS. LONDON. Oct, 6. “You’ll have a, wreath of watercress when you are dead.” Thus her sons and daughters baa chaffed Elizabeth James, the “watercress queen,” who for 50 xeais ms been the best-known and besUoved seller at the Covent Garden markets. To-day, aristocrats, in Rolls-Royces, and costermongers, in donkev-barrows, attended her funeral, and reverently placed wreaths of water-cross m the centre of many others. SOVIET RECALL. PARIS, Oct. 13. It is officially announced that the Soviet is recalling Rakov sky, suggesting as a successor, Dougalovski, at present Soviet Ambassador at Tokio.