Notes and Comments.

Huntly Press and District Gazette, Volume 3, Issue 6, 10 July 1914, Page 2

Notes and Comments.

• The revolution in the sartorial Men’s an ’ whereh , 7 , meii Clothes. ale , expected lo exchange thesomJ bre black, reckoned “the thing” ! for evening and morning wear, ■ for plum-coloured suits, bids I fair to prove successful, and ! those who regulate their apparel according to the prevailing mode . will have to face an unwelcome, ' because novel, expenditure. So : successful have the experiments > in colour blending proved, that a • tremendous advance in the hisI fcory of the British woollen inl dustry has been predicted,and the f results will be launched shortly 1 when the gay colours ; in the jmies. o early and late

Georges by Beau Brummel and others of the Macaroni type, will add a new colour note to the dress of to-day’s fashionable men. As there are sixty or more varieties or shades of the new cloth to choose from, there is a strenuous time ahead for such as bow the knee to Fashion.

The election of two ladies to a t ampq seat on the HunYND tly Sch ° ol Com " T rip a t mittee is not only Pnr TTfOS a step in the right 10LITICS. dil . ection) but is in keeping with the spirit of the times, and the only pity is that four or more were elected instead of two. In matters pertaining to domestic education and to hygiene, to say nothing of the humbler duties connected with sanitation an cleanliness —• their advice and practical knowledge will be of extreme value, while by undertaking the responsibilities which the privileges of the franchise entail, they furnish examples of the duties of citizenship which are worthy of imitation. Auckland has lady councillors, lady members of the Hospital Board, and ladies on the different school committees, and still the decadence of the race, and the degeneracy of our civic institutions predicted by pessimistic men of hoary, but hale and hearty conservative opinions, are as far off as ever. Good luck to the ladies ; for, you know, we would not be on this planet without them.