GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2442, 17 June 1922, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

The latest fashion for drawing rooms in Paris is to have big dolls seated on the sofa and in chairs round the room. So far English girls with rosy cheeks and French girls with big candid eyes have been the favourites, and have easily held their own against Russian, Japanese, and Dutch girls. But now a new nations of dolls,(ltalian signorinas, threatens to eclipse them. Many of them are dressed as Columbine, and they are characteristic by a languid, melancholy which tints their ■eyes with mauve, makes their cheeks pale, and wan, and gives them an air of absorption in something far away. Stated to have deserted his wife, now 18, on their wedding day, Edward Wareham Wilkinson, cottonmill manager of Davenport Park, near Stockport, England, was at Manchester Police Court ordered to pay his wife an allowance of £2 a week. 1 The desertion, said the counsel, was admitted. For the wife, it was stated that she was formerly a nurse and struck up an acquaintance with Mr Wilkinson. Later intimacy took place, and on December 12 last, after a discovery as to her condition, they were married. After the registry office ceremony they left in a cab with the wife’s sister, but the husband got out, walked away,, and never returned. M. Poincare, the French Prime Minister, speaking at the closing of a banquet of the French National Wine Week, said: “Although the United States has pronounced a condemnation of our wines, we hope that in the future that she will realise that there is something just in the Anglo-Saxon poet’s appreciation of wine, when he said: ‘I am health, I am courage, I am life.’ ” M. Poincare eulogised the vineyards as one of the greatest schools of labour and perseverance. “Our poetry and language would lose without wine some of the most beautiful flowers of their crown.” Wine, he added, could be either a tonic or a toxic. He urged them to seek therein, as in the days of Bacchus, their pleasure, courage and inspiration, but never bestial stupidity. A woman of independent means, Miss Emily Ann Boyes, 72, who lives the life of a recluse, died in a Leeds Poor Law institution, a few weeks ago. At an inquest it was stated that she was taken ill in the street and was removed to the workhouse infirmary suffering from bronchitis and extreme weakness. The medical superintendent said that- Miss Boyes seldom talked and often refused to answer questions. She refused to have flowers in her room and objected to wear a wrap for Iter shoulders because the colour was red. A verdict of death from natural causes was returned. Miss Boye's owned property in the poor quarter of Leeds, and allowed many 1 of her tenants to live rent free. She often supplied them with food and 1 money. Two years ago a sister of 1 Miss Boyes, who lived in the same house, died. Each sister had oc- ’ cupied a different part of the house, ■ . which, it was stated, was divided into sections by chalk lines.