OPPOSITION?

NZ Truth, Issue 1205, 3 January 1929, Page 15

OPPOSITION?

Giving Children A Dress Sense So a children's beauty parlor has been opened m London. It claims to produce m children a dress sense, and the system is worked out along higher lines than purely beautifying ones. BUT the opening of the parlor caused an avalanche. of letters to be Sent to the English press, signed "Mother of Nine" and "Grandmother" among others. * These letters protested at the idea of putting notions into the heads of children, which, it was insisted, were packed with folly,' anyway. - At first glance it would seem that all the beautifying the average child would need would be with soap and water and a hair-brushing. This judgment is too sweeping. In an age when eight out of ten children bite their rmils, a little judicious manicuring might engender enough personal vanity ..to. .make '.them, stop the habit, and many people 'have a strong feeling, that children's vanity is too much restricted. It would be hardly fair to expect a child who is kept m uniforms at school -suddenly to blossom forth into atyoung lady of-fashion if she has been tacitly forbidden to take an interest; m her clotheß or appearance, and, all ' frivolous frocks have been denounced. Could any girl of fifteen jgo safely into a shop and buy -herself an outfit ,without erring on the Side of fussiness? ' ... It is the result of the school years of suppression of ideas about clothes. She would have no notion of correct color or line, and the only, way to give her any is to make it part bf her education and treat the business of dressing from a normal point of view. ■•-,.'■' ..#'■ ■•■■#• What, Again! 7CIR. HARRY LAUDER rather sprung 7 a surprise on Wellington With the charming young niece he produced from his kilt pocket, so to speak, on his arrival here by the Tamaroa. bit. i?' well -known that Sir Hai-ry loves Wellington, with its sweep of hills and sea, only 'jUst less than. his own Bonnie Scotland. Butba Scot's a Scot for a' that and on his last visit here, with Lady Lauder at his side, Sirliari'y was guest of honor at a real hoots, havers ahd. haggis dinner. C. then Mayor,, cut the haggis,; and 7 even , ate , two helpings. But oh the -word of a distinguished lady there present, if/tastes, 1 to the uninitiated, juSt like sawdust. "'■•■■ - ',*' !''•*' Among The Woollies Tt& rather interesting to learn that -■ Lady Beauchamp, who is at present on a visit to New Zealand, has a young son hard' at work farming m the Mackenzie County, which sounds, to the sophisticated city dweller, about as wild and WOplly a place , as a young Settler could. •Well choose. . -Whilst the Flock Houses are doing their bit to bf trig boys and girls of, the right stamp into this country, it is all too rarely .that one hears of any interest, apart from the tourists', being taken by those not In dire need of a crust. Lady Beau champ, after a few brief 'days m Auckland, went south to visit her son, and is probably at present ehjoying her second' experience of life on 4 New Zealand tsxra,'y