STORY OF CONFETTI

Manawatu Herald, Volume LI, Issue 4447, 3 May 1930, Page 4

STORY OF CONFETTI

POUND IN A POCKET. A noted London store received I lie oilier day from a customer a fur coal; which bad been seal out on approval, and in one of the pockets was a copy of a wedding service with a good sprinkling of confetti. A. favourite habit atnony some women is to send for dance frocks and return them the next day, but. it is known from the aroma of scent and small particles of dust that, they have been worn. As a rule the customer lias two dresses sent. She wears one and ret liras it and buys the other, so that she has a new one for the next function.

“The problem of goods on approval is one of the most delicate with which we have to deal,” said the manager of a London store recently. We can easily tell when a garment has been worn, and sometimes fur coats and lints have been returned with the linings damaged. Naturally we draw llm customer’s attention to this, and the inevitable reply is, ‘Ob, it happened when I slipped it on to show my husband.’

Jewellers arc also victims of the evil. The. manager of one prominent linn said lie had actually seen Ids customer wearing rings sent Oil approval.

Dunstable Higgins, of Wickford, Essex won Die prize in a local beauty competition for men. ill the Law Courts, London, there lire 1.100 rooms, a printing press, and a blacksmith's shop. Chiui;li bells are tuned by chipping the edge till the proper note Is obtained,.